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Download Tool Error with Special Characters

NoahNathan
7 - Meteor

Having issues connecting to certain API websites when the link contains special characters, specifically %. The API link works perfectly for all the other links but fails for the 2 that have the % in it. The thing is that the links work perfectly when I view them in my browser.

 

The link is http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....ill-the-fight-end%3f.xml

 

The failing bit is the end "%3f".

 

Here is the 403 error:

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /
on this server.<br />
</p>
</body></html>

 

Any ideas how to fix this?

3 REPLIES 3
jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

A very quick guess but have you unticked the encode url box:

2017-01-11_13-13-47.jpg

 

NoahNathan
7 - Meteor

The box is ticked. Still doesn't work.

jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

It needs to be unticked

 

Otherwise the URL you showed will be double encoded

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