websave error when queryvalue contains "/"
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For the following url: https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/%5EGSPC?period1=1492522935&period2=1495114935&interval=1d&events=history&crumb=F49sxISRiT/ it looks like the last character is converted to %2F, and the website doesn't accept this. Can you help?
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Jan
on 18 May 2017
No, it does not look like the last character is converted. All we see is that the last charater is a "/". Why do you assume that a conversion happens and most of all for which command do you observe this? Why do you think, that the website reject this? In other words: Please post your code and explain, what happens. Then posting an answer is not based on guessing.
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Guillaume
on 18 May 2017
Edited: Guillaume
on 18 May 2017
it looks like / is converted to %2F
And that would be entirely correct and the right thing to do. The encoding rule is very specific. / is a reserved character and must be percent encoded when used as anything else than a separator.
and the website doesn't accept this
I doubt that yahoo's website is faulty, so I'm certain that it would accept a %2F in the query string. In fact, I'm certain it would reject a URI that used / in the query string instead. Are you sure your problem is not because of something else? What is the exact error you get?
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