Gary Gregory created HTTPCLIENT-1366:
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Summary: org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils should parse
the semicolon as a query parameter separator
Key: HTTPCLIENT-1366
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1366
Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: HttpClient
Affects Versions: 4.3 Beta1
Reporter: Gary Gregory
Assignee: Gary Gregory
Fix For: 4.3 Beta2
org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils should parse the semicolon as a
query parameter separator as well as be more flexible in its APIs WRT
specifying query parameter separators.
See:
RFC 1866 section 8.2.1 : by Tim Berners-Lee in 1995 encourages CGI authors to
support ';' in addition to '&'.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1866
HTML 4.01 Specification: Implementation, and Design Notes: "CGI implementors
support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors the trouble of escaping
"&" characters in this manner."
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 "CGI implementors are encouraged to support the
use of ';' in place of '&' "
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_foot.html#FOOT26
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