Kiwix-serve random feature returns partly broken URLs

[kelson42]

With a ZIM with the article ?_(album_de_Nena) from WPFR. The random button returns the following URL: http://localhost:8080/wikipedia_fr_articles_2019-07/A/?_(album_de_Nena) and it should return http://localhost:8080/wikipedia_fr_articles_2019-07/A/%3F_(album_de_Nena).

[kelson42]

@mgautierfr The problem here is quite fundamental and is related to URL escaping function, but these functions are not in cause here. The problem is that you can not apply to the whole path escaping properly, you need to apply to each part (namespace, zim url) differently... at the kiwix-serve/kiwix-lib level, you don't have this information anymore!

[kelson42]

@mgautierfr Moving the random feature in the libzim should help fixing this bug properly right?

[mgautierfr]

No, the random feature in libzim will just keep a random entry in the zim file.
The generation of the url will still be in kiwix-lib side.

(I'm moving the issue in kiwix-lib repository)

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[kelson42]

@mgautierfr I would need a full analysis of the problem/fix here.

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[veloman-yunkan]

This issue seems to be a special case of #775

[kelson42]

@veloman-yunkan My guess as well.