Re: browse-url does not allow url with a dollar sign

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Harald Maier wrote:
 > Start emacs with 'emacs -q'. Put into the *scratch* buffer the following line:
 >
 > http://www.warentest.de/pls/sw/SW$NAV.Startup?p_KNR=0&p_E1=2&p_E2=0&p_E3=50&p_E4=0&p_Inh=I:1162925
 >
 > Place point to the url and then type in the following function:
 >
 >   M-x browse-url-at-point
 >
 > The browser program receives as url the following string:
 >
 > http://www.warentest.de/pls/sw/SW.Startup?p_KNR=0&p_E1=2&p_E2=0&p_E3=50&p_E4=0&p_Inh=I:1162925
 >
 > It seems that the dollar sign '$' in the url needs to be escaped.

I don't see why this is happening.  The URL is returned verbatim by the
browse-url-url-at-point function and passed to browse-url, and then to
browse-url-browser-function (default: browse-url-netscape).  None of the
browser functions defined in browse-url.el invoke the browser program
via a shell, which would require the $ (and any other shell
metacharacters) to be quoted -- the only exception is
browse-url-default-windows-browser, which invokes "start" on MS-DOS and
does quote the URL.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers