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#100 Wikipedia search with spaces does not work

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nobody
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2007-07-14
2007-07-14
mason
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When using Foxy to do a wikipedia search, it replaces a space with the characters "%2520" which causes wikipedia to choke.

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  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Also came across this problem.

     
  • Diabolic Preacher

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    The plugin to search wikipedia is weby. Its amazing that most other search engines are working fine, converting the space to %20. Could someone please explain this irregular behavior? Thanks for the amazing software. It makes my desktop 10 times cool! :D or hot! :p

    for the time being, the only workaround is to use the underscore '_' instead of space and atleast get a search page with relevant results. not a clean solution though.

     
  • slemmons

    slemmons - 2007-12-21

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    You can get the same url if you search on wikipedia (not through launchy) and type %20 where you would normally type a space.

    I'm guessing webby is converting special characters to their corresponding ascii codes, then passing them through wikipedia's search (instead of just opening a browser/tab and sending it to the appropriate url), which converts all the %s in the ascii codes to %25.

     

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