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OverbiteWX seems to mangle short urls




It seems that the OverbiteWX proxy add-on for Firefox mangles short URLs presented in a gophermap file. I discovered this while updating links for my IF Archive mirror at gopher://gopher.661.org/1/if-archive/. Everything https://ifdb.tads.org now redirects to https://ifdb.org/.

This works:
hIFDB entry	URL:https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=s592isejad6u8mk5

But not this:
hIFDB entry	URL:https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=rf9tvr2cjqxbwdav

Instead what gets passed to Firefox is this:
https://ifdb.org/viewgame%3fid%3drf9tvr2cjqxbwdav
                         ^^^  ^^^

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David Griffith
dave@661.org

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