On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:03:25 +0200 Alberto Narduzzi <albertonardu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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. Yes, this is a workaround. But my question is why only the fphttpclient has a problem with colon while all others support it. I hope this can be changed somehow. I don't know if in ParseURI or in fphttpclient. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
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