On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:42 PM, James Merkel wrote:

> I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's  openURL method that has the 
> bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by  NSWorkspace. If I 
> take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess 
> NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL.

That’s weird, since RFC 1738 explicitly says parentheses are legal and don’t 
need to be escaped:

>    Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
>    reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
>    unencoded within a URL.

Could you show us one of these URLs?

—Jens

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