v3.3.1 MetadataProvider, metadataURL formatting question

[Cantor, Scott]

> Here is what I wound up with, the only modification being the replacement
> of the '&' ampersand with '%26':

Well, you really should not be using met.refeds.org as a source of metadata for a deployment, unless you're operating some kind of aggregation exercise on behalf of something else (and even then, I don't think that's what the mets tool is meant for). You're also not verifying a signature here, so you can't be doing this safely.

Secondly, I'm fairly certain that if a precent encoding worked, it's because the system didn't need the parameter in the URL to start with, because that should be getting echoed directly into the URL it's fetching.

-- Scott