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Created April 16, 2015 15:00
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Hey guys, check out this escaped url: http://crater.io/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fscaling-deploy-meteor-meteor%2Fid984131621%3Fi%3D339627585%26mt%3D2
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queso commented Apr 16, 2015

So what happens somewhere is that the URL after out?url= seems to be unescaped, I can't tell if it is Buffer or Bit.ly doing that.

Basically http://crater.io/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fscaling-deploy-meteor-meteor%2Fid984131621%3Fi%3D339627585%26mt%3D2 becomes http://crater.io/out?url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/scaling-deploy-meteor-meteor/id984131621%3Fi%3D339627585%26mt%3D2

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jehiah commented Apr 16, 2015

@queso Bitly does a process to normalize between different representations of the same url. Those two urls you listed should be semantically equivalent. Can you share where you are running into issues with them not being treated equally?

Note that escape sequences in the value of url=.... like %3F and %3D which would change the meaning of the URL if escaped are not unescaped.

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