From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-10-18T06:34:43+09:00
Subject: URI bug or bad URI?

Have a proof-of-concept application which parses drop texts. One of the
drop texts that I'm processing is a mailto uri. Ruby's URI library dies
when I try to parse the following uri.

mailto = URI.new( 'mailto:user@domain.com?subject=test%20(@test=10)

Are '@' symbols allowed in uri's in this context or do they need to be
escaped?


Here's the backtrace:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/uri/common.rb:230:in `unescape': private method `gsub' called for nil (NameError)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/uri/mailto.rb:184:in `to_mailtext'
	from /home/alan/bin/mailto:18

I'm using the following ruby version:
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-19) [i386-linux]

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Alan Chen
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