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Stanley Hillner commented on HTTPCLIENT-1516:
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bq. Allow me to disagree.
You may ;)
bq. If my memory serves me well it was done to be able to distinguish empty and
null parameter values.
Ok, I guess you want to distinguish these cases to provide a kind of
flagging-behavior for queries, such as http://...?debug which would advise the
servlet to print out debugging information?!
You are right, the specs doesn't handle those different cases (null-value,
empty value, ...) but I'm still of the opinion that a null-value is equal to
just omitting the parameter key from the query ;)
Thanks for the replies!
> URL-encoded form paramters - missing '=' for null-values
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> Key: HTTPCLIENT-1516
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1516
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HttpClient
> Affects Versions: 4.2.6, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 4.3.5
> Reporter: Stanley Hillner
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> If you pass {{null}} as the value for a post parameter and use URL-encoded
> form parameters the Method
> {{org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils#format}} omits the separator
> character ({{=}}) for this parameter which results in urls like the following.
> {{http://example.org/test?a=1&b&c=2}}
> In this case parameter {{b}} was assigned {{null}} as its value.
> It is not totally clear if the key/value separator character must be present
> even if the value is omitted (RFC 1738 doesn't handle this case) but this
> implementation leads to incompatibilities to other systems.
> I encountered this issue with httpclient 4.2.1 on the one side and undertow
> web server shipped with Wildfly 8.0.0.Final.
> I also opened an issue for undertow just to clarify the correct handling of
> null-values for url-parameters: [https://issues.jboss.org/browse/UNDERTOW-258]
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