AniDB

Hi I use the quick search bar in mozilla and have an anidb search engine in there, unfortunately if there is any punctuation in the search, for example (!,'&) your search translates these to %21 and so on. I was just wondering if this is something you are willing to look at.

Well, our search engine can deal with it, you kinda need to escape those symbols in the url.

Make sure that you are using "anidb.net" and not "anidb.info" in your search definition @ firefox.

see also: http://tracker.anidb.net/view.php?id=753

BYe!
EXP

I did some proper testing and I think it's you who fucked up:P

When you enter www.anidb.net, www.anidb.info or anidb.info domain into your address server will redirect you to anidb.net, but since domain redirector reencodes url in the process, the %20 in original query becomes %2520, which of course is converted (as you said in your bug report reply)... except that it ends up being converted from %2520 to %20 instead to space_char (as can be seen in search bar, really) which then the search engine fails to comprehend.

So, either:
- disable rewriting on domain redirection
- add parsing to search engine
- do something smart (hey, you're they guys who makes all those awesome services, I just use them;-)


EDIT:
Server information for http://www.anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.p ... blue[b]%20[/b]drop&show=animelist

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:35:43 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?ad ... ue[b]%2520[/b]drop&show=animelist
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
I don't just think anymore, now I'm sure

use anidb.net (eheh)

Use of anidb.info is deprecated.
So don't expect any fix for this.
In fact, we might even start displaying a deprecation error page to all users of anidb.info at some point.

BYe!
EXP

yeah, i think it's better to just show "anidb has moved, update your bookmarks" or something like that

I already use anidb.net:P

but but but but www.anidb.net is also fubared. Just so you know.

Don't use www. in front?

Or we could like, fix the fucking redirect... C'mon guys...

Not using mod_rewrite which is funky for query strings and going with mod_alias might work. I think exp is still loving his stoneage apache, so just like, using software from this century would probably be fine too.

Rar

In any case, this did prove that the "software" (Search Engine) is bugged. Someone should deeply look into it.

eh? did you read properly?

anyway, the redirect has been fixed already

thanks alot for fixing it Rar!