On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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.
ParseURI, most likely.
fphttpclient doesn't do any processing of the URL except passing it to ParseURI.
Michael.
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