Konqueror Web Shortcuts Problem with eBay

Konqueror's Web Shortcuts are very nice; it's really handy just to be able to do "<alt-f2> gg: stuff n things <enter>" and have konqueror launch from the run menu searching google for stuff n things.

So, I figured I'd add an eBay shortcut - makes sense, right? It's all good, except for eBay.

They have really nice URL for searching now: http://search.ebay.com/stuff, where ":stuff" is what I searched for. However, this only works for one-word searches because eBay is doing some mod-rewrite magic, methinks. For multiword searches, eBay requires the spaces be represented as hyphens instead of the typical URL pluses. This breaks the web shortcut for multiword searches, and I have to manually change the search string and start over.

I'm not sure if I should be mad at eBay for making this almost perfect, or at Konqueror for not making it obvious how I should use dashes for spaces instead of pluses.

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