247645 - allmusic.com - doesnt handle escaped URL

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[spoko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

On keyword searches, spaces are encoded as "%20", which works fine for a lot of
sites. But some sites (notably the AllMusic Guide--see keyword URL above) read
that as "%20" (or even "&20") rather than a space. A more universal way of
encoding it would be to replace spaces with plus signs (+) -- in my experience,
all search engines would read that correctly as a break between search terms.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

This bug was last touched before 1.0.4. Is it still reproducable?
Try the latest branch build (1.0.5): http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Try the latest nightly trunk build (v1.0+): http://www.mozilla.org/developer
(Reviving old UNCONFs)

Comment 2

[daneel]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This bug was last touched before 1.0.4. Is it still reproducable?
> Try the latest branch build (1.0.5): http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
> Try the latest nightly trunk build (v1.0+): http://www.mozilla.org/developer
> (Reviving old UNCONFs)

Yes. Behavior is identical in the latest build of 1.0.5. Spaces are encoded as
%20 -- to be most effective, though, they should be encoded as + signs.

Comment 3

[spoko]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This bug was last touched before 1.0.4. Is it still reproducable?
> Try the latest branch build (1.0.5): http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
> Try the latest nightly trunk build (v1.0+): http://www.mozilla.org/developer
> (Reviving old UNCONFs)

Yes. Behavior is identical in the latest build of 1.0.5. Spaces are encoded as
%20 -- to be most effective, though, they should be encoded as + signs.

Comment 4

[John Vandenberg]

From bug 123006 it is clear that %20 is preferred to +.

The website does have a problem, showing different results of rock%20roll
(interpreted as ROCK&20ROLL) vs rock+roll.  -> Tech Evangelism

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Is this still an issue? It looks to me like the keyword search URL in this bug still works, but has been deprecated by AllMusic so that it can no longer be generated by a new user.

Comment 6

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

This is fixed now, it handles spaces in the search properly. Closing.