From 4ee280755189b1ab024deafd54ee94a74ab96633 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:51:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1579 (Problem retrieveing image file as cover)

---
 src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index 15b42d442d..85ed39a16d 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -765,6 +765,8 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(object, LoggingInterface):
             self.log_debug(traceback.format_exc())
         if cu is not None:
             ext = cu.rpartition('.')[-1]
+            if '?' in ext:
+                ext = ''
             ext = ext.lower() if ext else 'jpg'
             self.report_progress(1, _('Downloading cover from %s')%cu)
             cpath = os.path.join(self.output_dir, 'cover.'+ext)