Re: [Orgmode] "%3f" shouldn't be unescaped in HTTP URLs

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 15, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote:

> Sebastien Delafond (el 2010-03-09 a les 17:36:16 +0000) va dir::
>
> > Quoting from Debian bug #573186[0]:
> >
> >  Some HTTP URLs have literal '?' in them.  Since '?' also separates  
> > the
> >  path from query arguments, it needs to be escaped in the first case.
> >  These are examples of the two cases:
> >
> >  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F
> >    (literal '?')
> >  - http://www.google.com/search?q=org+mode (query separator)
> >
> >  These are the URLs generated by Org mode when exporting them to  
> > HTML:
> >
> >  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf?
> >  - http://www.google.com/search?q=org+mode
> >
> >  I.e. '?' is left as is, but '%3f' is unescaped, producing the wrong
> >  URL (don't be fooled by the fact that Wikipedia actually accepts  
> > it ;)
> >  ).  This makes impossible to correctly export an HTTP URL with a
> >  literal question mark in it.
> >
> >  The solution would be to leave '%3f' as is, too, in the same way as
> >  '%27' has been left as is in the previous example.
>
> Hasn't anyone come across this behaviour?  I think it's a bug which  
> should be
> fixed since it makes some URLs impossible to write.  And according  
> to that last
> sentence, the solution doesn't seem too hard.

Hi Ivan,

the bug has not yet been fixed because my time is limited.  Please  
consider submitting a patch.

- Carsten