On Apr 2, 12:51 pm, Atemporal <Atemporal.s...@gmail.comwrote:
When I click the link of this group, it shows the followings errors.
Cannot find comp.lang.c%2B%2B
There is no group named comp.lang.c%2B%2B.
* The link you followed may be broken or misspelled.
* Search for comp.lang.c%2B%2B
* If you got to this page by clicking a search result, please report
the problem to Google Groups Support.
You use Firefox, and just upgraded, automatically, too:-).
Apparently, the latest version of Firefox is converting the +'s
in a link into their % HEX HEX encoding. This is actually
required, according to RFC2616 (since + is a reserved
character); it is frequent, however, to not do so, and earlier
versions of Firefox didn't. Within a URL, of course, the server
is required (again by RFC2616) to interpret the escaped ASCII as
the literal character, i.e. %2B means a + in the URL, even if
the context would otherwise interpret a + as some sort of
separator. So Google's server is broken as well. (At least,
this is what I think happened. The problem appeared for me
immediately after the last update of Firefox. It's possible,
however, that Google modified something and broke there server
at the same moment Firefox upgraded. Generally speaking,
however, Google's servers have always been severely broken,
sending all sorts of gibberish in lieu of correct HTML, and I
suspect that they never handled %2B correctly.)
In the meantime, once you get the error message, just go to the
URL line in the navigation toolbar, and edit the %2B to +.
Firefox, at least, doesn't change the +'s for a URL entered
there.
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