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IMDb plugin and Titles with reserved characters

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rick.ca:
I don't quite understand. How is it the character may be percent encoded, but IMDb is absolutely correct in not handling it? Regardless, it seems you're confirming what I suspected—special characters in the query section should not be percent encoded. And I guess that should apply to any source, not just IMDb (although I don't know if we have the same problem with any other plugins).

goddert:
Yes, you're right. My explanation wasn't very well ...

Because it is not a strictly reserved character in a query as a site operator you're free to accept only the '/'. That is what IMDB is doing.
Nobody is constrained to accept percent encoded characters if they are not obligatory. If it was a strictly reserved character you would be obliged to percent encode it and the site operator to parse this percent encoded character (indeed if you use a '/' in a non query part you are).

I'm not saying that it wouldn't be nicer if IMDB was parsing the 2%F but I fear they won't. Anyway I write them a mail ... we see whether they reflect ...

goddert:
If you put a "www" in front of the URL it works ...
http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt;q=20%2F20

rick.ca:

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Now that's interesting. Maybe the fix is an easy one. :-\

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