[drakma-devel] Unwanted url-encoding of GET parameters.

[William Halliburton]

Thanks much. After some wiresharking, I found that google doesn't like the
drakma user-agent and changing it to firefox did the trick.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> wrote:

> You are not allowed to send arbitrary characters in the request line.
> FWIW, I just tried your example with Firefox and this is what the
> browser sends according to LiveHttpHeaders:
>
>  http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%B2%D1%8B
>
> And Google returns the requested audio file.
>
> Edi.
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:08 AM, William Halliburton
> <whalliburton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to use drakma to fetch urls that contain utf8 characters but
> > HTTP-REQUEST automatically url encodes any non latin-1 ascii characters.
> >
> > On my cursory reading of the RFCs, this seems conforming behavor, but in
> > this case it is definitely unwanted.
> >
> > For example, the following url
> >
> >   http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=вы
> >
> > if entered directly into the browser correctly returns the text-to-speech
> > audo file but
> >
> > when attempting to use HTTP-REQUEST, the url is being url encoded into
> >
> >   http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%B2%D1%8B
> >
> > of which google does not url-decode and fails to return the correct data.
> >
> > So, for this case, the url-encoding is unwanted.
> >
> > I am willing to submit patch an additional argument into HTTP-REQUEST to
> > disallow the encoding.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > William
> >
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