From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T06:43:44+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uri bug

Steve H. wrote:
> On Feb 26, 12:20 pm, Rob Biedenharn <R...@AgileConsultingLLC.com>
> wrote:
>> Probably because %1 looks like a partially escaped character.  Try:
>>
>>         ?%251
>> Where %25 is an escaped %
>>
>> -Rob
>>
> 
> I appreciate the reply. This is a bit unfortunate, I am developing a
> tool which has to handle URIs the same way the browser does. While I
> realize that is not a "correct" URI, the browser still fetches the
> pages without a problem. In some sense, I wish I could mirror the
> functionality of the browser fetch using the URI module. Anyhow, thank
> you for your help!

Maybe this helps:

URI.escape('http://hello.com/a.php?%1')

=> "http://hello.com/a.php?%251"

Regards,

Siep
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