Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a problem in that wwwoffle has stored URLs in an invalid > format, not making them into valid url first.
WWWOFFLE always converts URLs into a canonical format before using them. It has done this since version 2.6, the description of how it does it is contained in the file doc/README.URL. > One can only access files if one gives the exact mix of &'s and %26's > that the URL entered wwwoffle with, You cannot mix '&' and '%26' as you want, the '&' is special. > $ 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 it seems the onus is on wwwoffle to cannonicalize names on the way > in and out, in the future. And in the past since version 2.6. > Also it seems a great renamer program should be supplied to adjust all > the D* and U* files to the cannonicalized names. The program name is 'convert-cache' and it is described in the file called doc/CONVERT. > [P.S. there is a slight chance I am/have off/lost rocker/marbles] No comment. > $ 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' This is a request with the following list of arguments: hl = zh-TW lr = ie = UTF-8 frame = left th = 3be7a746b9d627d1 prev = /groups?q=jidanni&hl=zh-TW&sa=G&scoring=d seekm = [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > $ 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' This is a request with the following list of arguments: hl = zh-TW lr = ie = UTF-8 frame = left th = 3be7a746b9d627d1 prev = /groups?q=jidanni&hl=zh-TW&sa=G&scoring=d&[EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a big difference between these two. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/user.html
