[Wikipedia-l] OneLook

[Jens Frank]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:05:59PM +0200, Andre Engels wrote:
> > Andre Wrote:
> > >> I have found a problem with the Wikipedia entries on Outlook: If one tries
> > >> to get a Wikipedia page with a name that is made of more than one words, it
> > >> tries to get the page with spaces instead of underscores. Could that be
> > >> improved?
> > >
> > >Sorry, 'Outlook' should be 'OneLook' of course...
> > 
> > I tested it out, and it's still resulting in the right address ... are
> > there times when it doesn't?
> 
> Well, whenever I try it, things go wrong. For example, when I try to search
> "George Bush" on OneLook, the second hit is Wikipedia. If I click on it, it
> brings me to
> "http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Bush", which gets interpreted as
> [[GeorgeBush]] rather than [[George Bush]].
> 
Some browsers are smart enough to know that blanks are not allowed and encode
it as "+" instead of sending a blank to the server. Other browsers rely on the
web designer to know better than the browser and send the URL "as is".

JeLuF