Malformed URL string in openURL
I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL. Note, the ( ) characters are used by Mapquest to label a location. If I just enter the URL string with brackets in the browser , it opens mapquest ok. Is there any way around this problem? Thanks, Jim Merkel ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, James Merkel jmerk...@mac.com wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL. Note, the ( ) characters are used by Mapquest to label a location. If I just enter the URL string with brackets in the browser , it opens mapquest ok. Is there any way around this problem? Forgive the obvious: have you tried an HTML escape - #40; and #41;? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, James Merkel jmerk...@mac.com wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL. Note, the ( ) characters are used by Mapquest to label a location. If I just enter the URL string with brackets in the browser , it opens mapquest ok. Is there any way around this problem? Forgive the obvious: have you tried an HTML escape - #40; and #41;? My bad - URL escapes: %28 and %29. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:42 PM, James Merkel wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL. That’s weird, since RFC 1738 explicitly says parentheses are legal and don’t need to be escaped: Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters $-_.+!*'(),, and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL. Could you show us one of these URLs? —Jens smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:42 PM, James Merkel jmerk...@mac.com wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL. Note, the ( ) characters are used by Mapquest to label a location. If I just enter the URL string with brackets in the browser , it opens mapquest ok. Is there any way around this problem? Forgive the obvious: have you tried an HTML escape - #40; and #41;? My bad - URL escapes: %28 and %29. I tried %28 and %29 and that didn't work either. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:42 PM, James Merkel wrote: I am sending a URL string to NSWorkspace's openURL method that has the bracket characters ( ) in it. The URL can't be opened by NSWorkspace. If I take out the ( ) characters NSWorkspace then opens the URL, so I guess NSWorkspace considers the string with ( ) a malformed URL. That’s weird, since RFC 1738 explicitly says parentheses are legal and don’t need to be escaped: Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters $-_.+!*'(),, and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL. Could you show us one of these URLs? —Jens The following works ok: NSString * mapquestURLString; mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916 ]; if([[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:mapquestURLString]]); else NSLog(@Could not open mapquest); But if I use the following string, I get the error message: mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916(Test point label)]; I got the examples from http://www.mapquestapi.com/link-to-mapquest/#parameters I'm noticing some of the other examples don't work also. Jim Merkel___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: The following works ok: NSString * mapquestURLString; mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916;]; (Just FYI, the -stringWithString call is redundant. You can just assign the constant directly to the variable.) mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916(Test point label)”]; It’s not the parens that are illegal, it’s the spaces. Change them to %20 and you should be OK. —Jens smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: The following works ok: NSString * mapquestURLString; mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916 ]; (Just FYI, the -stringWithString call is redundant. You can just assign the constant directly to the variable.) mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916(Test point label)”]; It’s not the parens that are illegal, it’s the spaces. Change them to %20 and you should be OK. —Jens Right you are -- thanks. I was using stringWithString because I actually was building up a URL string by appending strings. I simplified the code to show the problem. Jim Merkel___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 18:20, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@ http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916(Test point label)”]; It’s not the parens that are illegal, it’s the spaces. Change them to %20 and you should be OK. Or change the spaces to pluses (+). - h ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:32 PM, James Merkel wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:17 PM, James Merkel wrote: The following works ok: NSString * mapquestURLString; mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916;]; (Just FYI, the -stringWithString call is redundant. You can just assign the constant directly to the variable.) mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithString:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=hybridq=39.7452,-104.98916(Test point label)”]; It’s not the parens that are illegal, it’s the spaces. Change them to %20 and you should be OK. —Jens Right you are -- thanks. I was using stringWithString because I actually was building up a URL string by appending strings. I simplified the code to show the problem. Is there some reason you're not using built-in support to properly escape strings that are part of URLs? NSString* mapType = @hybrid; NSString* location = @39.7452,-104.98916(Test point label); mapquestURLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@http://mapq.st/?maptype=%@q=%@;, [mapType stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], [location stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]; ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Malformed URL string in openURL
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Steve Christensen wrote: stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding Yeah, I just found that method about an hour ago! Not related to Cocoa -- but It turns out after playing around with this with mapquest and google maps, adding a label can change the view that you get (particularly in google maps). So I probably won't add that. But at least I found out how to get a legal URL string in the process. Thanks, Jim Merkel ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
