: The Solr URL in Solr 4.2 for my localhost installation looks like this: : http://localhost:8883/solr/#/development_shard1_replica1 : : This URL when constructed dynamically in Ruby will not validate with the : Ruby URI:HTTP class because of the # sign in the path. This is a : non-standard URL as per RFC1738.
1) RFC 1738 is antiquated, Among other things, RFC 3986 is much relevant and clarifies that "#" is a fragment identifier 2) the URL you are refering to is a *UI* view, and the fragement (/development_shard1_replica1) is dealt with entirely by your web browser via javascript. 3) for dealing with solr's HTTP APIs programaticly the type of "base url" you want will either be "http://localhost:8883/solr/"; or "http://localhost:8883/solr/development_shard1_replica1"; depending on wether your client code is expecting a base url for the entire server (to query multiple SolrCores), or a base url for a single SolrCore. -Hoss
