+1 for this getting fixed, please! Minor source of confusion, but probably easy to fix.
Thanks! Best, Tom On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 18:20, Rupert Westenthaler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > I recently discovered, that DBpedia unnecessarily encodes '(' and ')' > in URLs to '%28' and '%29' because both > RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL) > RFC 2396 (URI Generic Syntax) and > define that "(" and ")" can be normally used within URLs. > > For most of the cases requests with the unencoded variant of the URL > would not return any results > e.g. > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Family_%28biology%29 > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Family_(biology) -> not found > Wikipedia allows access with both variants. > > In some cases DBpedia provides different information for both variants > of the URL > e.g. > http://dbpedia.org/page/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29 > http://dbpedia.org/page/Republican_Party_(United_States) > > As far as I can say this affects all URLs that use '(' and ')' > > A similar thing is also the case for URLs that include an "#" > e.g. > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Midfielder%23Winger is an own Resource > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Midfielder#Winger returns the contents > for Midfielder > > best > Rupert > > -- > | Rupert Westenthaler [email protected] > | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 > | A-5500 Bischofshofen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > -- Thomas Steiner, Research Scientist, Google Inc. http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
