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Karsten Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when i visit a certain URL i get error 404 with wwwoffle and the page without > a > proxy. > > Here is the URL: > http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicyle-Power-for-Your-Television,-Laptop,-or-Cell-/?relatedLink > Can anyone confirm and/or explain that? Here is my environment: I can explain the problem - the server is broken. If you try the two following URLs without WWWOFFLE you should see that the first of them doesn't work but the second one does: http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicyle-Power-for-Your-Television,-Laptop,-or-Cell-/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicyle-Power-for-Your-Television%2C-Laptop%2C-or-Cell-/ The two should give the same result since it is valid to encode the ',' character as the sequence %2C or not to encode it since ',' is not a special character in a path name. When you request the URL with WWWOFFLE it always uses the first format rather than the second so that whichever you use only a single one gets cached. Keeping a character or encoding it still references the same entity even if the URL looks different (unless the character is being used for its reserved purpose at that time). It isn't possible to get this right all of the time because there are characters that are accepted by some websites only if they are encoded and by other web sites only if they are not. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.9/user.html
