From: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "%3f" shouldn't be unescaped in HTTP URLs
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:17:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100315191709.GA32690@edgar.terramar.selidor.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100309183340.960@usenet.piggo.com>
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Sebastien Delafond (el 2010-03-09 a les 17:36:16 +0000) va dir::
> Quoting from Debian bug #573186[0]:
>
> Some HTTP URLs have literal '?' in them. Since '?' also separates the
> path from query arguments, it needs to be escaped in the first case.
> These are examples of the two cases:
>
> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F
> (literal '?')
> - http://www.google.com/search?q=org+mode (query separator)
>
> These are the URLs generated by Org mode when exporting them to HTML:
>
> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf?
> - http://www.google.com/search?q=org+mode
>
> I.e. '?' is left as is, but '%3f' is unescaped, producing the wrong
> URL (don't be fooled by the fact that Wikipedia actually accepts it ;)
> ). This makes impossible to correctly export an HTTP URL with a
> literal question mark in it.
>
> The solution would be to leave '%3f' as is, too, in the same way as
> '%27' has been left as is in the previous example.
Hasn't anyone come across this behaviour? I think it's a bug which should be
fixed since it makes some URLs impossible to write. And according to that last
sentence, the solution doesn't seem too hard.
Thanks and cheers,
::
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- http://ivan.lovesgazpacho.net/
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2010-03-09 17:36 "%3f" shouldn't be unescaped in HTTP URLs Sebastien Delafond
2010-03-15 19:17 ` Ivan Vilata i Balaguer [this message]
2010-03-15 19:43 ` Carsten Dominik
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