From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T13:12:52+09:00
Subject: Are square brackets not allowed in a URI?

    I could swear that this URL works:


http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/players/189_YellOw[ArnC]


    ...but parsing this with URI throws an exception claiming that this is 
invalid.
    I don't know exactly what URI's are but Mechanize is using it to parse 
URLs and this appears to be a valid URL so it looks like either Mechanize's 
bug is in using Ruby's URI module or the URI module in not accepting valid 
URLs.  Either that or there's something I'm totally not understanding (like 
my browser lying to me or something).  Can someone tell me what's going on?
    Thank you!