[Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Broken link because of encoding

[Brion VIBBER]

Brion VIBBER wrote:
> Lightning wrote:
>> I just noticed this... go to:
>> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes_%26_Merrie_Melodies_filmography 
>>  
>> it takes you to looney tunes... and its not a redirect? and when i 
>> look at the history it works fine and it shows me how it really should 
>> be... whats going on?
> 
> Looks like a glitch in the URL-rewriting configuration -- the full 
> expanded form works fine:
> 
> http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Looney_Tunes_%26_Merrie_Melodies_filmography 
> 
> (This was previously hidden by another bug which produced an incorrectly 
> escaped URL.) I'll bang it into place.

Got it. Annoyingly enough, the internal url-encoding function seems to 
encode everything _but_ ampersands, so I had to write a quickie external 
filter. Sheesh.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)