Problem reading url

Hi, I try to read an URL which contains an ^. But this always fails:

>> URL: to-url {http://de.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes/

>> read URL

>>

Just having a look in net-utils/url-parser ... write clipboard:// mold net-utils/url-parser Just used this tool: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_ref_urlencode.asp which encodes your url thus: http%3A%2F%2Fde%2Efinance%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Fd%2Fquotes%2Fcsv%3Fs%3D%5EGDAXI%26 f%3Dsl1t1d1c1pohgv%0D%0A Notice the %3D%5E, which looks like the encoding for ^ If I replace the ^ with %3D%5E, then I can read the url ok. Not sure what this means for rebol's url-parser. Anton.

Raimund, REBOL generally follows the accepted standard for url characters; however, frequently websites use characters that are not technically part of the standard. I have not checked for "^". At any rate the net-utils parsing rules *sometimes* can be patched to allow the url to be parsed. I have tried the patch for this character and it appears to parse, but I do not know if it retrieves the information for which you seek. Watch for line wrap. net-utils/url-parser/path-char: union net-utils/url-parser/path-char make bitset! "^^" read http://de.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes/csv?s=^GDAXI&f=sl1t1d1c1pohgv yields: connecting to: de.finance.yahoo.com == {^^GDAXI;4033,98;17:45;4/16/2004;+29,37;4004,61;4004,61;4043,53;3986,62;0 } This patch may make other tcp accesses unstable, so use at your own risk, or alternatively: old-bitset: copy net-utils/url-parser/path-char net-utils/url-parser/path-char: union net-utils/url-parser/path-char make bitset! "^^" read http://de.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes/csv?s=^GDAXI&f=sl1t1d1c1pohgv net-utils/url-parser/path-char: copy old-bitset which then reverts the bitset back to the original. Hope that this helps as an alternative to Anton's more properly formatted method. --Scott Jones

Actually %3D%5E is the encoding for two characters =^ So just replace ^ with %5E Anton.

Am Montag, 19. April 2004 17:08 schrieben Sie:

> Actually %3D%5E is the encoding for two characters =^ > So just replace ^ with %5E >