Gerard Bouchar created NUTCH-2554:
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             Summary: parsechecker can't fetch some URLs
                 Key: NUTCH-2554
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-2554
             Project: Nutch
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Gerard Bouchar


The parserchecker (org.apache.nutch.parse.ParserChecker) calls 
_URLUtil.toASCII_ on the url it is given, reencoding already percent-encoded 
URLs.

For instance, let's say we want to query _http://example.com_, passing a GET 
parameter with name 'q' and value '/'. '/' is a special character, and thus has 
to be encoded before being sent.
If we pass '[_http://example.com/?q=/_'|http://example.com/?q=/%27] to the 
parserchecker, then it doesn't encode the '/', and tries to fetch the URL as 
is, which is invalid.
If we try to encode the parameter beforehand, and call the parsechecker with 
'http://example.com/?q=%2F', then it encodes the '%' sign to '%25', and thus 
fetches '[http://example.com/?q=%252F'.|http://example.com/?q=%252F%27.]


This actually makes it impossible to fetch the correct URL 
(http://example.com/?q=%2F) from the parsechecker.



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