On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, liza ezbiansky wrote:
>
> It seems that %3D gets translated back to = in REQUEST reports, but other
> characters do not (e.g. I also have a lot of %3Fs in my report, which
> remain). As far as I can tell, this is an unintended effect.
>
> e.g., my log file contains:
> /x?u=http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp%3Fisbn%3D0465043585
> which comes out of analog as:
> /x?u=http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp%3Fisbn=0465043585
>
> I turned off translation of that character in globals.c, as a quick fix.
> I wonder why are those lines going through the translation anyway? I
> assumed that only the SEARCH* reports would need character translation...
>
Well, the reason is that, for example,
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/%7Esret1/
is the same as
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
so they should be reported together.
The only characters which aren't converted are ? & and % . But = shouldn't
be converted and won't be in the next version. The reason is that, for
example,
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/searh.pl%3Fsret1
ISN'T the same as
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/search.pl?sret1
The second is the file search.pl with search argument sret1. The first is
the rather implausibly-named file "search.pl?sret1".
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
"The Hubble Space Telescope has shut itself down, preventing astronomers
from making any observations of the Universe." (BBC News, 15 Nov 1999)
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