WebSearch: add a quoting = none
setting to prevent quoting/escaping in URLs altogether
#42
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What
none
option for thequoting
setting:%xx
escape codes), and the user-provided string is used exactly as writtenkeysearch.ini
file, where thequoting
setting was referred to asargs_quoting
Why
This is kind of a niche requirement, but I have at least one example where it's useful 😄 My use case was that I wanted to use WebSearch to look up DOIs for academic references using the doi2bib website. DOIs typically contain slashes
/
, and doi2bib requires these to be unescaped in the URL, soworks, but the escaped version
doesn't.
After this change, I can configure this site as follows in my WebSearch config, and it behaves like I want it to: