fix(fetcher): unescape HTML entities in extracted href links#171
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HTML attributes encode & as &, so a link like href="https://example.com/search?q=foo&lang=en" was being yielded verbatim — passing the literal & to servers that expect a plain &. Add html.unescape() on each extracted href before resolving it, and cover the case with a new test.
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Fixes #170
Fix:
Add html.unescape() on each captured href before it is resolved and stored. This is a stdlib.
One new test covering the
&→ & conversion has been added as well.Files changed: