Open-URI and percent sign in url

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I am trying to use open-uri to open the following url
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start
and I'm getting the following error

:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:436:in `split': bad URI(is not
URI?): http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start
(URI::InvalidURIError)
  from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:485:in `parse'
  from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:29:in `open'
  from mitbook.rb:14

However, the url works fine in the browser.

thanks,

Luis

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I am trying to use open-uri to open the following url
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start
and I'm getting the following error

%_t is not a valid % escape sequence. You probably want ...#%25_toc...

However, the url works fine in the browser.

The browser is more forgiving, which is nice for people like my parents.

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On Sep 27, 2007, at 08:58 , lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:

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Thanks. That worked!

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On Sep 27, 11:15 am, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:

On Sep 27, 2007, at 08:58 , lrleb...@gmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to use open-uri to open the following url
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%
> _toc_start
> and I'm getting the following error

%_t is not a valid % escape sequence. You probably want ...#%25_toc...

> However, the url works fine in the browser.

The browser is more forgiving, which is nice for people like my parents.