[OSM-talk] The British Museum Test - ATTN Tom!

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Sat Nov 24 15:57:42 GMT 2007


On 24/11/2007 14:39, Tom Hughes wrote:
> I was stupidly relying on ruby's URI.escape() to actually escape
> things properly. Unfortunately it's author seems to have taken rather
> too many hallucinogenic drugs and it quite deliberately excludes most
> of the characters (like &, ?, / etc) which are special in URIs from
> the list of those that will be escaped... Hence we wound up searching
> for "Victoria".
> 
> It is fixed now anyway, and correctly finds the V&A as expected.

Great, thank you!

David





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