ABE Anonymize action replacing "??" with "?" in URL

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AlbertMTom
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ABE Anonymize action replacing "??" with "?" in URL

Post by AlbertMTom »

The ABE Anonymize action is replacing "??" with "?" in a URL, causing HTTP 400 Bad Request errors for requests from sites which load JavaScript and CSS from wp.com, if a rule such as follows is in effect:

Site *
Accept from SELF++
Anonymize

This causes sites such as http://perspectives-project.org/ to render without styling.

Is there a valid reason that "??" is replaced with "?" in the URL? As far as I can tell, this result is not relevant with respect to the stated functionality in the specification ...
Anonymize (synonyms are Anon and Logout) – strips Authorization and Cookie headers, turns methods different than GET, HEAD and OPTIONS into GET, remove upload data, then sends the modified request.
Please advise.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Twome1954
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Joined: Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:02 am

Re: ABE Anonymize action replacing "??" with "?" in URL

Post by Twome1954 »

This affects a lot of sites ... some which I have bookmarked and visit regularly, as well as many, many that I visit only once or occasionally when clicking on such as news article links.

For privacy reasons, I'm not going to list affected sites that I visit; instead, I have compiled a sample list of affected sites from a Google search. You can see the list here:
http://pastebin.com/nkxC5Ugw
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
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