Bug #19196
Updated by westoque (William Estoque) almost 2 years ago
When I am reading the string response from a URI.open, the response is not equivalent to the response body. URI.open escapes the response body string.
How to reproduce:
```
url = "https://www.podcastone.com/podcast?categoryID2=1237"
handle = URI.open(url)
=> #<Tempfile:/path/to/tempfile>
puts handle.read
.... https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/E2G895/aw.noxsolutions.com/launchpod/adswizz/1237/762-FeedbackFriday-249-V2_mzwq_b1dc1677.mp3?awCollectionId=1237&awEpisodeId=ee01b21a-878d-4be4-974c-e504b1dc1677&adwNewID3=true&awNetwork=309...
```
In the browser, the actual string reads:
```
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/E2G895/aw.noxsolutions.com/launchpod/adswizz/1237/762-FeedbackFriday-249-V2_mzwq_b1dc1677.mp3?awCollectionId=1237&awEpisodeId=ee01b21a-878d-4be4-974c-e504b1dc1677&adwNewID3=true&awNetwork=309
```
Notice the characters `#38;`
My initial research is that it's because the Tempfile that gets created is in ascii-8bit, and in ascii-8bit, the amperstand is a "38".
I propose that we should have a way to force the encoding of the Tempfile to UTF8 so that this character is not escaped and the string encoding is preserved.