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Gary Gregory resolved HTTPCLIENT-1366.
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Resolution: Fixed
In SVN.
> org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils should parse the semicolon as a
> query parameter separator
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> 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
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> 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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