There's a problem in that wwwoffle has stored URLs in an invalid
format, not making them into valid url first.

One can only access files if one gives the exact mix of &'s and %26's
that the URL entered wwwoffle with,

$ wwwoffle-ls 
'http://groups.google.com.tw/groups?hl=zh-TW&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=left&th=3be7a746b9d627d1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Djidanni%26hl%3Dzh-TW%26sa%3DG%26scoring%3Dd&seekm=MPG.197011df92c6aa1d98988e%40netnews.comcast.net'
DqBwKSDUUyaYR4GqhwRDr2A    4462 Jul  6  5:09 
http://groups.google.com.tw/groups?hl=zh-TW&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=left&th=3be7a746b9d627d1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Djidanni%26hl%3Dzh-TW%26sa%3DG%26scoring%3Dd&seekm=MPG.197011df92c6aa1d98988e%40netnews.comcast.net

If one dares to rewrite one of those &'s to a %26, or even %26's into
a &, well,

$ wwwoffle-ls 
'http://groups.google.com.tw/groups?hl=zh-TW&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=left&th=3be7a746b9d627d1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Djidanni%26hl%3Dzh-TW%26sa%3DG%26scoring%3Dd%26seekm=MPG.197011df92c6aa1d98988e%40netnews.comcast.net'
wwwoffle-ls[7971] Warning: Cannot stat the file 'DOXjfrNdrPZG7ZGgS+avyvw' [No such 
file or directory].

So, there's no way that a page with such a URL will pass the
validator, not a page with the valid version of the URL be able to get
it out of wwwoffle if it wasn't stored with that exact name.

So it seems the onus is on wwwoffle to cannonicalize names on the way
in and out, in the future.

Also it seems a great renamer program should be supplied to adjust all
the D* and U* files to the cannonicalized names.

[P.S. there is a slight chance I am/have off/lost rocker/marbles]


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