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Parenthesis in rss urls being escaped

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#219 opened on Sep 14, 2024

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Description

A rather niche issue that is affecting me. I've created an API that converts the output from https://boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi2/hot?boardgame into an RSS feed that can be read using the RSS widget. However, if you look in the link the urls have parenthesis in them which get escaped. When I look at my glance homepage the image urls have %28%29 in place of ().

Is this something I can fix with a setting?

I'm fairly sure it's not an issue on my end as all my debugging indicates the () are being sent correctly and the escaping to %28%29 is happening on the glance server.

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Trace the RSS feed processing code to find where URL escaping occurs, likely in the HTTP client or response parsing. Check if parentheses are being percent encoded unnecessarily and ensure proper handling according to RFC 3986.
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