[fpc-pascal] fphttpclient get an url with colon

[Alberto Narduzzi]

> I doubt that mediawiki uses malformed urls.
> And any browser and http client uses it without warning.

as I said, it was out of curiosity.

Googling around anyway, shows that there are some special characters out 
there (obviously), which are meant to compose the url itself: colon, 
slash, dot, q.mark, ampersand, percent, etc. etc.

To use them in a url for your special purposes, you should at least 
escape them; if not for anything else, at least for those not-so-smart 
browsers (or http-client components...).

Try replacing the colon with %3A and see if the component adds a slash 
at the end as well. It should not IMHO.

Anyway, "http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org?Image=Acs_demos.jpg" is not 
that ugly. Probably it's not so sophisticated, but can do the very same job.


Cheers, A.