Glad to know its not Ubiquity doing that, but it's still a pity that its 
not working for that site however.

- Blair




On 6/02/2009 2:19 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Feb 5, 10:40 am, "[email protected]"<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> I'm just starting looking at Ubiquity and I thought I'd write a simple
>> search shortcut as my first command. The results are available 
>> athttp://dave.org.uk/ubiquity/lovefilm.html.
>>
>> But there's a problem with the command which becomes obvious when you
>> search for a string containing a space. If you search, for example,
>> for Woody Allen then the query text gets "double-url-encoded" and ends
>> up as "woody%2520allen" - which is "woody%20allen" with the % url-
>> encoded again for some reason.
>>
>> Is this something that Utils.openUrlInBrowser is doing for me? Or is
>> it a problem with the LoveFilm web site?
>
> An update. It seems it's a problem with the LoveFilm web site. Tracing
> the HTTP interaction, I see the following:
>
> * A request to 
> http://lovefilm.com/search/overview.html?search_keywords=woody%20allen
>
> * A 301 response from LoveFilm redirecting to
> http://www.lovefilm.com/search/overview.html?search_keywords=woody%2520allen
>
> * A request to 
> http://www.lovefilm.com/search/overview.html?search_keywords=woody%2520allen
> (which returns no results for obvious reasons).
>
> You can get exactly the same behaviour by just trying to visit
> http://lovefilm.com/search/overview.html?search_keywords=woody%20allen
> in a browser.
>
> So the problem has nothing to do with Ubiquity. Sorry for disturbing
> you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave...
>
> >

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