Re: [Chicken-users] r5rs url help

[Ozzi]

Just replace the % with %25. That's what safari shows in the location bar when 
you visit one of the links. There's probably an Objective-C function somewhere 
to do URL encoding, you should probably use that.

See Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL-encoding


Rick Taube wrote:
> i have a slightly-off-chicken problem that Im hoping someone on this 
> list can help me solve. I have a Scheme code editor and im trying to 
> implement symbol help lookup for r5rs scheme symbols. The basic idea is 
> that you put your mouse on a r5rs symbol, type Command-? and then the 
> r5rs doc for that symbol should pop up in your default browser. It all 
> works except for the fact that -- at least on the the Mac -- trying to 
> open Scheme's r5rs document at specific html #index locations fails 
> because all r5rs #indexes start with '%'  which causes the url opening 
> to fail!  Ive traced this to the to fact that the % char apparently 
> screws up the Open command. For example if you type this open command in 
> a Terminal:
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> galen:/Lisp/grace hkt$   open 
> 'http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-9.html#%_idx_630' 
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> You get the error:
>
> 008-01-03 11:06:08.086 open[1708] No such file: 
> /Lisp/grace/http:/www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-9.html#%_idx_630 
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> Ive tried various sorts of quoting on the url string, tried replacing 
> '%' with '&37;' but nothing seems works. does anyone know how I can 
> defeat the '%' character expansion so I can call a browser with urls 
> with indexes like  %_idx_630  in them?
>
> thanks for any info or ideas...
> rick
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