Media-Convert: Suggestions => URI encoding problem with remote file conversion

URI encoding problem with remote file conversion [message #147]

Sun, 13 April 2008 14:28

lispy
Messages: 3
Registered: March 2008

Junior Member

Hi, let me report a bit technical issue.

I encountered an error (download failure) when trying to convert
online resources whose URL contained some non-alphanumeric chars
in the query string.

One of the URLs in question had a query parameter as follows:
http://cdn.yourfilehost.com/unit1/flash8/05/05bd16390d5c35ce 797034c253d58696.flv?key=Q0RBVQQCgAA6mr+rTnUFwf1+/5C2BR3KLt0 s/xBf/SZRl2r4pHiNvHr1ade+En6rM0JGRitlaSznl3eLqIx6KSHND2Sf9xQ IULbdv8+EfucsdQaJPLRJ4NboleSbZI8NtFe01tN1npft7+aH5KjZQy5+cGr AkpkP+zt7XMhYpeiUq6qantQIQQ==

As you see, it contains chars such as "/" and "=", which are,
according to RFC3986 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 ),
valid query string characters. And I have a suspicion that
those chars were needlessly percent-encoded ( "%" HEX HEX )
before downloading, resulting in invalid access.

Could you please fix this? Sorry if I'm wrong.