diff --git a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/util/TextUtils.java b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/util/TextUtils.java
index 94fdfe86..dc17b1c4 100644
--- a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/util/TextUtils.java
+++ b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/util/TextUtils.java
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
@@ -251,4 +254,38 @@ public class TextUtils {
         e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
         return sw.toString();
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * Exception- and warning-free URL-escaping utility method.
+     * 
+     * @param s String to escape
+     * @return URL-escaped string
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    public static String urlEscape(String s) {
+        try {
+            return URLEncoder.encode(s,"UTF8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            // should be impossible; all JVMs must support UTF8
+            // but have a fallback just in case
+            return URLEncoder.encode(s); 
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Exception- and warning-free URL-unescaping utility method.
+     * 
+     * @param s String do unescape
+     * @return URL-unescaped String
+     */
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    public static String urlUnescape(String s) {
+        try {
+            return URLDecoder.decode(s, "UTF8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            // should be impossible; all JVMs must support UTF8
+            // but have a fallback just in case
+            return URLDecoder.decode(s);
+        }
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dist/src/main/conf/jobs/profile-defaults/defaults.xml b/dist/src/main/conf/jobs/profile-defaults/defaults.xml
index 060761e5..508776b0 100644
--- a/dist/src/main/conf/jobs/profile-defaults/defaults.xml
+++ b/dist/src/main/conf/jobs/profile-defaults/defaults.xml
@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@
  <bean id="fetchDns" class="org.archive.modules.fetcher.FetchDNS">
  </bean>
  <bean id="fetchHttp" class="org.archive.modules.fetcher.FetchHTTP">
-     <property name="cookieStorage">
-      <bean class="org.archive.modules.fetcher.BdbCookieStorage">
-      </bean>
-     </property>
  </bean>
  <bean id="extractorHttp" class="org.archive.modules.extractor.ExtractorHTTP">
  </bean>
diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/framework/CrawlJob.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/framework/CrawlJob.java
index 526cf7ec..f710b709 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/framework/CrawlJob.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/framework/CrawlJob.java
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ import org.archive.spring.ConfigPath;
 import org.archive.spring.ConfigPathConfigurer;
 import org.archive.spring.PathSharingContext;
 import org.archive.util.ArchiveUtils;
+import org.archive.util.TextUtils;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException;
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ public class CrawlJob implements Comparable<CrawlJob>, ApplicationListener{
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 throw new RuntimeException(e);
             }
+            jobLogger.setLevel(Level.INFO);
         }
         return jobLogger;
     }
@@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ public class CrawlJob implements Comparable<CrawlJob>, ApplicationListener{
         if(isRunning()) {
             pw.println("ACTIVE; "+getCrawlController().getState()+":");
         }
-        pw.println("<a href='"+uriPrefix+getShortName()+"'>"+getShortName()+"</a>");
+        pw.println("<a href='"+uriPrefix+TextUtils.urlEscape(getShortName())+"'>"+getShortName()+"</a>");
         if(isProfile()) {
             pw.println("(profile)");
         }
diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/restlet/JobResource.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/restlet/JobResource.java
index 68a5e5f2..9b943a83 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/restlet/JobResource.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/restlet/JobResource.java
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import org.archive.crawler.reporting.StatisticsTracker;
 import org.archive.spring.ConfigPath;
 import org.archive.util.ArchiveUtils;
 import org.archive.util.FileUtils;
+import org.archive.util.TextUtils;
 import org.restlet.Context;
 import org.restlet.data.CharacterSet;
 import org.restlet.data.Form;
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ public class JobResource extends Resource {
         super(ctx, req, res);
         setModifiable(true);
         getVariants().add(new Variant(MediaType.TEXT_HTML));
-        cj = getEngine().getJob((String)req.getAttributes().get("job"));
+        cj = getEngine().getJob(TextUtils.urlUnescape((String)req.getAttributes().get("job")));
         if(cj==null) {
             throw new ResourceException(404);
         }