Launch URL with tilde (~) [SOLVED]

[Zax]

Hello,

I have to launch an URL with a tilde in it, somethinh like https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html but the tilde character is transformed into the string "LE8B3" by the browser. Then, of course, the server returns a 404 error.

I used this:

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put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" into myURL // just an example

launch url myURL

I tried this, but it doesn't work:

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put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" into myURL // just an example

put textEncode(myUrl,"UTF-8") into myURL
launch url myURL

What should I do? Sorry if is has been already discussed somewhere.

Thank tou for your help.

[jmburnod]

Hi zak,
You can try this.

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put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/" &  urlencode("~myDomain") & "/myPage.html" into myUrl

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[Zax]

Hi zak,
You can try this.

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put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/" &  urlencode("~myDomain") & "/myPage.html" into myUrl

Best regards
Jean-Marc

Thanks for your quick answer.

I tried your solution but the browser has a strange behaviour:


As it's a private domain, names have been changed on the screen capture but the interesting thing is that when I click into the browser's URL field and press the return key, it goes to the correct URL. But when I simply reload the page, it returns the same 404 error.

Any Idea?

[jmburnod]

What about this ?

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put urlEncode(textEncode("~myDomain","utf8")) into tDomain
put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/" & tDomain & "/myPage.html" into myUrl

[MaxV]

Mac OS encoding is MacRoman

[Zax]

What about this ?

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put urlEncode(textEncode("~myDomain","utf8")) into tDomain
put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/" & tDomain & "/myPage.html" into myUrl

I tried with "utf8" and "MacRoman" parameter but it stills doesn't work. The result in the same that shown in the posted screen capture.
I suppose I will have to use HTTP protocol, instead of HTTPS, in order to have a "regular" URL, without this damned tilde.

Anyhow, thanks for your suggestions.

[jacque]

Try something like this:

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get "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html"
replace "~" with "%7e" in it
put it into tDomain

I couldn't test that because I don't have an example of a domain with a tilde, but that's the url encoding for it.

[Zax]

Try something like this:

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get "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html"
replace "~" with "%7e" in it
put it into tDomain

Thank you Jacqueline, but it's always the same. I really don't understand where is the problem.

I also try with

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unload URL myURL

before launch URL without any success.

[[-hh]]

You may try:
launch url ("https://ssl15.ovh.net/"&numToChar(126)& ... yPage.html")

The problem could be that the tilde on your keyboard is generated not directly but for example by "option-n space". Some browsers (Firefox) correct this.
[The incorrect interpretation of your first post (E8B3) is an UTF-16 question mark, used for 'unknown chars'. So possibly your "tilde" is interpreted as UTF-16/two bytes.]

[Zax]

You may try:
launch url ("https://ssl15.ovh.net/"&numToChar(126)& ... yPage.html")

The problem could be that the tilde on your keyboard is generated not directly but for example by "option-n space". Some browsers (Firefox) correct this.
[The incorrect interpretation of your first post (E8B3) is an UTF-16 question mark, used for 'unknown chars'. So possibly your "tilde" is interpreted as UTF-16/two bytes.]

The URL that appears in Firefox is now:
https://ssl15.ovh.net/LE8B3myDomain/myPage.html

I also tried numToCodepoint(0x7e) with the same result.

[MaxV]

What happen with this code

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put quote & "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" & quote into myURL
put shell("/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox " & myUrl)

??

[Zax]

What happen with this code

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put quote & "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" & quote into myURL
put shell("/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox " & myUrl)

??

If Firefox is already launched, Message Box contains:

2016-07-07 14:13:28.977 firefox[585:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1003cb500 of class NSCFDictionary autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2016-07-07 14:13:28.980 firefox[585:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1003c14f0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2016-07-07 14:13:34.248 firefox[585:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1003b8aa0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2016-07-07 14:13:34.645 firefox[585:903] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/QXPScriptingAdditions: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/QXPScriptingAdditions, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/QXPScriptingAdditions: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
firefox: OpenScripting.framework - scripting addition "/Library/ScriptingAdditions/QXPScriptingAdditions.osax" declares no loadable handlers.

I not, it works but it freezes LC.

[[-hh]]

[Please tell us the versions you use: MacOS, Firefox, and LiveCode.]

This works (and also other 'usual solutions' above work)
with MacOS 10.9 to 10.12 in Safari, Firefox and Chrome and LC 6/7/8.
I tested all with LC-scripts and a real "tilde-URL".

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tell application "Safari" -- or "Firefox" or "Google Chrome"
   open location "http://ssl15.ovh.net/%7EmyDomain/myPage.html"
   -- open location "http://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" -- works also
end tell

You could try it from the Applescript Editor to see if your LC version is the culprit. If not then you could try the different browsers if there are differences.

[FourthWorld]

Here's some background on the use of tildes in URLs:
https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/tilde.html

It would seem the initial translation of the tilde to anything other than its character entity equivalent is incorrect. That may be a bug in LC, or the CEF browser, or elsewhere. Are you using the most recent build of LC?

To get this working for now, Jacque's suggestion of replacing the tilde with its character entity form seems the simplest, and the most consistent with the recommendations of the relevant RFCs as noted in the article above.

[[-hh]]

One could also use the *actual* RFC 3986 (2005)
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt

There you'll find even the recommendation to replace -- vice versa -- occurrences of "%7E" with "~" in an URI:

For consistency, percent-encoded octets in the ranges of
ALPHA (%41-%5A and %61-%7A), DIGIT (%30-%39), hyphen (%2D), period (%2E), underscore (%5F), or tilde (%7E)
should not be created by URI producers and, when found in a URI, should be decoded to their corresponding unreserved characters by URI normalizers.