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Sep 26, 2005, 4:31 AM

Andy

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Sep 26, 2005, 4:31 AM

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Can unescape :/

Hi,

I'm trying to convert a URL, like this;

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2FEconomics%2FA_monopoly_can_control_price_or_output_but_not_both_L1624%2F

I'm using this global;

Code:
sub { 
  my $in = $_[0]; 
  return unless defined $in; 
  for my $str (ref $in eq 'ARRAY' ? @$in : $in) { 
      $str =~ tr/+/ /; # pluses become spaces 
      $str =~ s/%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge; 
  } 

  print "FOO: $in"; 
  return \$in; 
}

Can anyone see whats going wrong? Even when passing it via this global, it doesn't "convert" it into a valid URL (i.e http://www.domain.com/....).

I've made sure that its being escaped (with \$in) .. but that doesn't seem to be having any affect :/

TIA

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 26, 2005, 4:32 AM

Andy

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Sep 26, 2005, 4:32 AM

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Re: [Andy] Can unescape :/ In reply to

Oh, BTW.. I've also tried;

<%GT::CGI::unescape($url)%>

..which has exactly the same result :(

TIA

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 26, 2005, 5:29 AM

eupos

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Sep 26, 2005, 5:29 AM

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Re: [Andy] Can unescape :/ In reply to

Hmmm ... strange
This works for me Crazy

Quote:

<%GT::CGI::unescape('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2FEconomics%2FA_monopoly...etc')%>

the result is printed as follow:

http://www.domain.com/Economics/A_monopoly_can_control_price_or_output_but_not_both_L1624/

May be won't work for another reason on your site?
Or some double escape somewhere?

Cheers,
Boris

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Sep 26, 2005, 6:10 AM

Andy

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Sep 26, 2005, 6:10 AM

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Re: [eupos] Can unescape :/ In reply to

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, its very odd Unsure

Code:
<br/><%GT::CGI::unescape('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2FEconomics%2FA_monopoly...etc')%>  
<br/><%GT::CGI::unescape($url)%>  
<br/><%url%>

.. gives this;

http://www.domain.com/Economics/A_monopoly...etc
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.com%2FAccounting%2FThe_Relationship_between_The_Nominal_Interest_Rate_On_Bonds_and_L1143%2F
http%253A%252F%252Fwww.domain.com%252FAccounting%252FThe_Relationship_between_The_Nominal_Interest_Rate_On_Bonds_and_L1143%252F

Pirate

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 26, 2005, 6:15 AM

Andy

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Sep 26, 2005, 6:15 AM

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Re: [eupos] Can unescape :/ In reply to

Wow.. very weird :/

I managed to get it working, with this;

Code:
sub { 
  my $in = $_[0]; 
       $in = GT::CGI::unescape($in); 
       $in = GT::CGI::unescape($in); 
  return \$in; 
}

Very odd

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 26, 2005, 6:19 AM

eupos

User (339 posts)

Sep 26, 2005, 6:19 AM

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Looks like somewhere the $url is double escaped Crazy

Cheers,
Boris

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