From: bsagert@...
Date: 2008-06-07T04:59:25+09:00
Subject: open-uri and illegal url characters

Hello, n00b here. I use open-uri to read a Yahoo .csv file of stock
and index quotes. Yahoo indices start with a circumflex ("^") which a
browser will convert to "%5e". The following line is rejected by Yahoo
(andRuby) ==>s=open('http://download.finance.yahoo.com
/d/quotes.csv?s=^DJI,^SPX,^IXIC&f=sl1d1t1nohgv&e=.csv').read
Is there a Ruby method that will automatically convert illegal
characters into url-speak? Thanks, Bill