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Re: Encoding problem - please help

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:31:11 +0200 (MET DST)

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, ValueCD WebMaster wrote:

> However, when I try to download it with curl
>
> curl -o local.HTM
> http://www.musicline.de/de/artist/Pege%A5Wilfer%A5Pauer%A5Pe
> ge
>
> then I get a page where the artist line is changed from
>
> Pege/Wilfer/Pauer/Pege to
> PegeA5PauerA5Pege

You're using Windows, right? Your shell or something eats the % letters. FAQ
question 4.2 => http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html

> If I leave the string unencoded:
>
> curl -o local.HTM
> http://www.musicline.de/de/artist/Pege%A5Wilfer%A5Pauer%A5Pe
> ge

This is the exact same URL.

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Received on 2002-08-29