From: Andrew Timberlake <andrew@...>
Date: 2009-04-13T20:06:24+09:00
Subject: Re: URI.parse and whitespace characters

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Marcelo Barbudas <nostef@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to parse a lot of bad links like:
> http://www.something.com/bad link.jpg
> (spaces in them)
>
> URI.parse fails parsing them and considers them as faulty links.
>
> However in my case I need it to work. Is there a workaround for this?
>
>
> --
> M.
>
>

uri = "http://www.something.com/bad link.jpg"
URI.parse(uri.gsub(/ /, '+')) #<- replaces all spaces with '+'

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