On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 12:48 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > It seems to me that URLEncodedUtils.DELIM should be:
> >
> > new char[] { '&', ';' };
> >
> > instead of:
> >
> > new char[] { '&' };
> >
> > All the tests pass with this change. It just seems like an omission.
> >
> >
> > Also in
> > org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils.parse(List<NameValuePair>,
> > Scanner, String)
> >
> > scanner.useDelimiter(PARAMETER_SEPARATOR);
> >
> > should be:
> >
> > scanner.useDelimiter("[&;]");
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
>
>
> Gary
>
> Can you give an example (or better yet, a test case ;-)) of URL encoded
> content where semicolon is used as a delimiter?
>
Hi Oleg,
See notes 1, 2, and 3 in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme
1. *^ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#cite_ref-1>* RFC
1866<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1866>section 8.2.1 : by Tim
Berners-Lee in 1995 encourages CGI authors to
support ';' in addition to '&'.
2. *^ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#cite_ref-2>* HTML 4.01
Specification: Implementation, and Design
Notes<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2>:
"CGI implementors support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors
the trouble of escaping "&" characters in this manner."
3. *^ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#cite_ref-3>* Hypertext
Markup Language -
2.0<http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_foot.html#FOOT26>"CGI
implementors are encouraged to support the use of ';' in place of '&'
"
I use URLEncodedUtils directly in my app to parse URL/URIs.
I'll add unit tests if these changes are deemed acceptable.
Gary
>
> Oleg
>
>
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