I doubt that mediawiki uses malformed urls.
And any browser and http client uses it without warning.

as I said, it was out of curiosity.

Googling around anyway, shows that there are some special characters out there (obviously), which are meant to compose the url itself: colon, slash, dot, q.mark, ampersand, percent, etc. etc.

To use them in a url for your special purposes, you should at least escape them; if not for anything else, at least for those not-so-smart browsers (or http-client components...).

Try replacing the colon with %3A and see if the component adds a slash at the end as well. It should not IMHO.

Anyway, "http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org?Image=Acs_demos.jpg"; is not that ugly. Probably it's not so sophisticated, but can do the very same job.


Cheers, A.
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