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diff --git a/chrome/content/ui/help.html b/chrome/content/ui/help.html index 0ce6769..19105a4 100644 --- a/chrome/content/ui/help.html +++ b/chrome/content/ui/help.html @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ <li><a href="#excludepattern">Exclude pattern</a></li>
<li><a href="#redirectto">Redirect to</a></li>
<li><a href="#patterntype">Pattern type</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#unescapematches">Unescape matches</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#wildcards">Wildcards</a></li>
@@ -74,6 +75,14 @@ <li><a name="patterntype"></a><strong>Pattern type:</strong> This specifies how Redirector should interpret the patterns, either as
<a href="#wildcards">wildcards</a> or <a href="#regularexpressions#">regular expressions</a>.</li>
+
+ <li><a name="unescapematches"></a><strong>Unescape matches:</strong> A common usage of Redirector is to catch urls like
+ <em>http://foo.com/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbar%2Ecom%2Fpath</em> and try to catch the url parameter and redirect to it. A pattern
+ like <em>http://foo.com/redirect.php?url=*</em> might be used for that purpose. However, if the url parameter is <em>escaped</em> (also known
+ as <em>urlencoded</em>) then that won't work. In the url above we see that it starts with <em>http%3A%2F%2F</em> instead of <em>http://</em>, and Firefox
+ won't accept this as a new url to redirect to. So, in cases like these you can check the <em>Unescape matches</em> option and then all
+ matches will be unescaped (turned from e.g. <em>http%3A%2F%2Fbar%2Ecom</em> to <em>http://bar.com</em>) before being inserted into the target url.
+ </li>
</ul>
</p>
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