That worked perfectly. Thanks Don
On Jan 27, 4:22 pm, Rob Biedenharn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 27, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Don French wrote: > > > I am trying to open a URI using doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url)). I get > > the following error: > > > URI::InvalidURIError: bad URI(is not URI?): > >http://www.mauipropertytax.com/Datalets.asp?mnu=PSearch&submnu=Profil... > > |1|*&item=1 > > from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:436:in `split' > > from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:485:in `parse' > > from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:29:in `open' > > > The problem is, if I paste the url in a browser it does go to the > > proper page. What am I missing > > Try replacing the | characters with %7C > > Or try: > > doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(URI.encode(url))) > > -Rob > > Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
