Re: browse-url does not allow url with a dollar sign

[Juri Linkov]

Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de> writes:
> Start emacs with 'emacs -q'. Put into the *scratch* buffer the following line:
>
> http://www.warentest.de/pls/sw/SW$NAV.Startup?p_KNR=0&p_E1=2&p_E2=0&p_E3=50&p_E4=0&p_Inh=I:1162925
>
> Place point to the url and then type in the following function:
>
>   M-x browse-url-at-point
>
> The browser program receives as url the following string:
>
> http://www.warentest.de/pls/sw/SW.Startup?p_KNR=0&p_E1=2&p_E2=0&p_E3=50&p_E4=0&p_Inh=I:1162925

Even if you said you started emacs with 'emacs -q', I don't know what
default browser you use.  A suitable browser is selected by attempting
in this order: gnome-moz-remote, Mozilla, Galeon, Netscape, Mosaic,
IXI Mosaic, Lynx in an xterm, MMM, Konqueror, W3.  It seems that
you are using a Mozilla-based browser.  It substitutes environment
variables references even when they are quoted in the program arguments.
So, the dollar sign '$' in the url needs to be encoded in browse-url.el.

Index: emacs/lisp/net/browse-url.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/net/browse-url.el,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -c -r1.32 browse-url.el
*** emacs/lisp/net/browse-url.el        1 Sep 2003 15:45:33 -0000       1.32
--- emacs/lisp/net/browse-url.el        27 Feb 2004 01:38:23 -0000
***************
*** 818,825 ****
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens.
!   (while (string-match "[,)]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
--- 818,825 ----
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens and dollars.
!   (while (string-match "[,)$]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
***************
*** 889,896 ****
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens.
!   (while (string-match "[,)]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
--- 889,896 ----
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens and dollars.
!   (while (string-match "[,)$]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
***************
*** 942,949 ****
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens.
!   (while (string-match "[,)]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
--- 942,949 ----
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens and dollars.
!   (while (string-match "[,)$]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
***************
*** 991,998 ****
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens.
!   (while (string-match "[,)]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))
--- 991,998 ----
  used instead of `browse-url-new-window-flag'."
    (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "URL: "))
    ;; URL encode any `confusing' characters in the URL.  This needs to
!   ;; include at least commas; presumably also close parens and dollars.
!   (while (string-match "[,)$]" url)
      (setq url (replace-match
               (format "%%%x" (string-to-char (match-string 0 url))) t t url)))
    (let* ((process-environment (browse-url-process-environment))

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