# Boomkat websource connection issues

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/boomkat-websource-connection-issues/19059
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [June 19, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/boomkat-websource-connection-issues/19059 "2017-06-19T19:30:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ms6676749)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/boomkat-websource-connection-issues/19059/1 "2017-06-19T19:30:33Z")

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```
[Name]=Boomkat
[BasedOn]=https://www.boomkat.com
[IndexUrl]=https://boomkat.com/products?q[keywords]=%s
[AlbumUrl]=
[WordSeperator]=%20
[IndexFormat]=%_url%|%Artist%|%Album%|%Catalog#%|%Label%|%Genre%
[SearchBy]=$regexp($regexp(%album%,'\s+\[.+\]$',,1),'[+!(){}\[\]^"~*?,:\\\\]', )
[Encoding]=url-utf-8

```

The index url is [pre][https://boomkat.com/products?q[keywords]=Pop[/pre]](https://boomkat.com/products?q%5Bkeywords%5D=Pop%5B/pre%5D), but it doesn't work from within mp3tag with either http or https. I also had UserAgent=1, in the code, but that didn't work.

![](http://i.imgur.com/QOTe0js.jpg)

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2017, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/boomkat-websource-connection-issues/19059/2 "2017-06-20T12:04:37Z")

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I've looked into this and noticed that the query part uses [and] which are not allowed in this part of the URI according to [RCF 3986](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt). Thus the error message.

You can try to use percent-sign encoding which would be %5B and %5D

Kind regards  
– Florian

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### Author: ![ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ms6676749)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/boomkat-websource-connection-issues/19059/3 "2017-06-20T14:01:32Z")

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Thank you for your helpful suggestion, Florian. "[https://boomkat.com/products?q[keywords]=Pop](https://boomkat.com/products?q%5Bkeywords%5D=Pop)" works in the browser and I'm no longer receiving the uri error. However, I'm now receiving a 12029 "a connection with the server cannot be established" error. Progress, I think...

```
[Name]=Boomkat
[BasedOn]=https://www.boomkat.com
[IndexUrl]=https://boomkat.com/products?q%5Bkeywords%5D=%s
[AlbumUrl]=
[WordSeperator]=%20
[IndexFormat]=%_url%|%Artist%|%Album%|%Catalog#%|%Label%|%Genre%
[SearchBy]=$regexp($regexp(%album%,'\s+\[.+\]$',,1),'[+!(){}\[\]^"~*?,:\\\\]','%20')
[Encoding]=url-utf-8

```

Best regards to you.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/boomkat-websource-connection-issues/19059/4 "2017-07-01T04:52:31Z")

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This is an error which is raised from the underlying WinHttp Windows libraries and not part of Mp3tag. I have currently no idea how to circumvent this.

Kind regards  
– Florian

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### Author: ![ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ms6676749)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/boomkat-websource-connection-issues/19059/5 "2017-07-02T07:26:18Z")

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Well, darn. Still, thank you Florian for checking it out for me. At least I leave this with a definitive answer from you.

Best regards