[fpc-pascal] fphttpclient get an url with colon

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:03:25 +0200
> Alberto Narduzzi <albertonarduzzi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Yes, this is a workaround.
>
> But my question is why only the fphttpclient has a problem with
> colon while all others support it. I hope this can be changed
> somehow. I don't know if in ParseURI or in fphttpclient.

ParseURI, most likely. 
fphttpclient doesn't do any processing of the URL except passing it to ParseURI.

Michael.