It does work. The input URL you pass to it must not be encoded, though.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe
will be encoded to
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%2520fonts/final/andale32.exe
(the % is encoded as %25) and that causes things to fail.
It does work. The input URL you pass to it must not be encoded, though.
http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/project/ corefonts/ the%20fonts/ final/andale32. exe
will be encoded to
http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/project/ corefonts/ the%2520fonts/ final/andale32. exe
(the % is encoded as %25) and that causes things to fail.