From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2011-10-08T04:34:05+09:00
Subject: Re: open of web page fails

You need to escape the carets (^) for Ruby to understand - URI library
 is pretty strict about what it accepts. You will probably need to
 escape all other funky chars, too.

-- Matma Rex