Bug #8581: URI.parse can't parse URI: (URI::InvalidURIError) "bad URI(is not URI?

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14 revision 40734) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN

[pctj101 (Jeff Chan)]

I get this (hr) as a HTTP_REFERER and URI.parse throws:

hr = "http://www1.search-results.com/web?l=dis&q=harukorean&o=APN10645&apn_dtid=^BND406^YY^US&shad=s_0041&apn_uid=3223038720574163&gct=ds&apn_ptnrs=AG6&lang=en&atb=sysid%3D406%3Aappid%3D0%3Auid%3D96343b7a58391e5d%3Auc%3D1372225677%3Asrc%3Dieb%3Ao%3DAPN10645"
URI.parse hr

(URI::InvalidURIError) "bad URI(is not URI?):

[hamiltop (Peter Hamilton)]

According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 '^' is not a valid character in a query string.

According to the document, '^' is not neither listed as a reserved or unreserved character. It should therefore be percent encoded.

The string you provide is therefore not a valid URI and as such URI.parse is correct in throwing a URI::InvalidURIError.

[steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik)]

That is correct.

I believe this should be closed.

• Status changed from Open to Rejected