Bug #9563: URI.parse error

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: zzak (zzak _)
• Target version: 2.2.0
• ruby -v: ruby 2.1.0p0 (2013-12-25 revision 44422)
• Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN

[evserykh (Evgeniy Serykh)]

I have the error for the url :

... pry(main)> URI.parse "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-А_а.svg" URI::InvalidURIError: bad URI(is not URI?): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-А_а.svg

My ruby version is:

$ ruby -v ruby 2.1.0p0 (2013-12-25 revision 44422) [x86_64-darwin13.0]

[srawlins (Sam Rawlins)]

You must first encode the String properly with URI.escape:

>> require 'uri'
=> true
>> URI.escape("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-А_а.svg")
=> "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-%D0%90_%D0%B0.svg"
>> URI.parse(URI.escape("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-А_а.svg"))
=> #<URI::HTTP:0x007fbe4304e468 URL:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-%D0%90_%D0%B0.svg>
>> URI.parse(URI.escape("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-А_а.svg")).to_s
=> "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/01-Russian_alphabet-%D0%90_%D0%B0.svg"

This could be better documented.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Category set to doc
• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to zzak (zzak _)
• Target version set to 2.2.0

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r46984.

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• lib/uri/common.rb: [DOC] [Bug #9563] Recommend using URI.escape
  before parsing a uri to avoid invalid characters. Reported by
  Evgeniy Serykh.