gnus does not decode http address correctly

gnus does not decode http address correctly

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello 

this is odd,

I  received an email containing an http address, according to gnus is
was "decoded" as
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid%2c67731/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn
but this is not correct,
using thunderbird, in the same message the url was displayed as


http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,67731/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn

which is correct.

is there  any way to change this misbehaviour?

Uwe Brauer 

Re: gnus does not decode http address correctly

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Oct 09 2007, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> I  received an email containing an http address, according to gnus is
> was "decoded" as
> http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid%2c67731/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn
> but this is not correct,
> using thunderbird, in the same message the url was displayed as
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,67731/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn
>
> which is correct.

I assume you are talking about a text/plain part?  Gnus is not a HTML
renderer.  There's no reason to convert "%2c" to "," when displaying
text/plain.  I tend to think that rendering text/plain is a bug in
Thunderbird.

> is there any way to change this misbehaviour?

I think the bug is on pcworld.com, but I might be wrong.

theotp1:~/public_html/tmp$ cat fid,67731 
Komma
theotp1:~/public_html/tmp$ cat fid%2c67731 
%2c

<http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/tmp/fid,67731>
--> Komma

<http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/tmp/fid%2c67731>
--> Komma

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: gnus does not decode http address correctly

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

   >> 
   >> which is correct.

   > I assume you are talking about a text/plain part?  Gnus is not a HTML
   > renderer.  There's no reason to convert "%2c" to "," when displaying
   > text/plain.  I tend to think that rendering text/plain is a bug in
   > Thunderbird.

So you are saying that this bug finally gives the right result, namely
connecting to the url, while the correct behavior of gnus ends up in a
url which cannot be visited by any  browser I have tried.

   >> is there any way to change this misbehaviour?

   > I think the bug is on pcworld.com, but I might be wrong.

   > theotp1:~/public_html/tmp$ cat fid,67731 
   > Komma
   > theotp1:~/public_html/tmp$ cat fid%2c67731 
   > %2c

   > <http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/tmp/fid,67731>
   --> Komma

   > <http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/tmp/fid%2c67731>
   --> Komma


Both connect to comma right.

Strang3 problem  all together 

Uwe 

Re: gnus does not decode http address correctly

[William F Hammond]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>    > theotp1:~/public_html/tmp$ cat fid,67731 
>    > Komma
>    > theotp1:~/public_html/tmp$ cat fid%2c67731 
>    > %2c
>
>    > <http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/tmp/fid,67731>
>    --> Komma
>
>    > <http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/tmp/fid%2c67731>
>    --> Komma
>
>
> Both connect to comma right.

All 4 look like correct returns to me.  The "%2c" is a URL
escape.  Use of "special" characters in URLs is somewhat limited.
See RFC 3986.

Use http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/tmp/fid%252c67731 to
retrieve "%2c".  And, just for safety, in case "%" is a special
character in your command line (using wget), place the entire url in
quotes.

                                    -- Bill