Re: [Lynx-dev] loading incorrect webpage

[Bela Lubkin]

"jindam, vani" wrote:

> probably meaningless, but urlencode was also giving incorrect results for:
>
> $ urlencode 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jindam_vani/zandbak&action=history
>
> but it shows correct result:
>
> $ urlencode 
> 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jindam_vani/zandbak&action=history'

Not at all meaningless: it precisely shows the problem.  The '&'
character is meaningful to the shell, and the first command does not
quote it.  That command means:

1. Run 'urlencode 
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jindam_vani/zandbak'
   in the background

2. Immediately after launching that in the background, also run 'action=history'
   in the foreground [ which will finish immediately, without error ]

This is standard Unix shell stuff.  Quoting with 'single-quotes' is the
best approach -- assuming the thing you're putting this into handles
that correctly.  I don't use `twm`, but chances are it will do exactly
as expected, therefore work correctly as soon as you put in the quotes.

All of which is completely off-topic to this list, of course.

>Bela<