Issue #19196 has been reported by westoque (William Estoque). ---------------------------------------- Bug #19196: The string saved to Tempfile from URI.open escapes "&" characters https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19196 * Author: westoque (William Estoque) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- When I am reading the string response from a URI.open, the response is not equivalent to the response body. URI.open escapes the response body string. How to reproduce: ``` url = "https://www.podcastone.com/podcast?categoryID2=1237" handle = URI.open(url) => #<Tempfile:/path/to/tempfile> puts handle.read .... https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/E2G895/aw.noxsolutions.com/launchpod/adswizz/1237/762-FeedbackFriday-249-V2_mzwq_b1dc1677.mp3?awCollectionId=1237&awEpisodeId=ee01b21a-878d-4be4-974c-e504b1dc1677&adwNewID3=true&awNetwork=309... ``` The string in the browser says "https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/E2G895/aw.noxsolutions.com/launchpod/adswizz/1237/762-FeedbackFriday-249-V2_mzwq_b1dc1677.mp3?awCollectionId=1237&awEpisodeId=ee01b21a-878d-4be4-974c-e504b1dc1677&adwNewID3=true&awNetwork=309" Notice the characters "&" My initial research is that it's because the Tempfile that gets created is in ascii-8bit which the amperstand is a "38". We should create a way to force the encoding of the Tempfile to UTF8 so that this character is not escaped. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/