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Error when opening downloaded web page

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I have downloaded a few pages from a website. Firefox says it can't find them (from the link contained in the root index.html file) . I can open the link with another browser (links). When I open the linked page manually, the name in the url bar of firefox get changed from http://www.blah1.com/?blah2&blah3.html to

http://www.blah1.com/%3Fblah2&blah3.html . Note: only the question mark ( not the &)gets changed. The name of the file on the disk, and the link itself in  the root file are  correctly spelled and identical.

I suspect this is could be related to this query http://support.mozilla.com/en/questio.../760105?s=url+encoding&as=s.

I have tried to change the character encoding from/to UTF-8 and ISO8859-1, but it doesn't work. 

I am using firefox 4 on Linux

Can someone help?

I have downloaded a few pages from a website. Firefox says it can't find them (from the link contained in the root index.html file) . I can open the link with another browser (links). When I open the linked page manually, the name in the url bar of firefox get changed from http://www.blah1.com/?blah2&blah3.html to http://www.blah1.com/%3Fblah2&blah3.html . Note: only the question mark ( not the &)gets changed. The name of the file on the disk, and the link itself in the root file are correctly spelled and identical. I suspect this is could be related to this query [http://support.mozilla.com/en/questions/760105?s=url+encoding&as=s]. I have tried to change the character encoding from/to UTF-8 and ISO8859-1, but it doesn't work. I am using firefox 4 on Linux Can someone help?

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oops, sorry. I meant "file://home/user/?blah2&blah3.html " and

"file://home/user/%3Fblah2&blah3.html"