Building your own URL only works for GET requests, not for POST requests. I don't need to stop drakma from encoding query strings for my application, I can pass it the string with spaces and let it encode them to plus signs. I'm suggesting a useful, minor, upward-compatible addition to drakma's API. Perhaps drakma's interface is too high-level for the kind of application that might need more direct control of encoding and decoding. I can understand not wanting to add another keyword to http-request and another few lines to the documentation. That's your judgement call. Trivial-http and cl-curl are also available.
Anyway, thanks for listening, and thanks for the code... ----- Original Message ---- From: Edi Weitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General interest list for Drakma and Chunga <drakma-devel@common-lisp.net> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 9:41:29 AM Subject: Re: [drakma-devel] Bug report: Overeager encoding of parameters On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:08:18 -0700 (PDT), Eric Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RFC 2396 has been superseded by RFC 3986, although that does not > affect this case. RFC 2396 is what is quoted in RFC 2616, so that's why I was referring to it. > http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html > > "Within the query string, the plus sign is reserved as shorthand > notation for a space. Therefore, real plus signs must be encoded. That's what Drakma does. > For the record, neither IE nor Firefox encodes plus signs when they > are entered as part of the query. They encode them if they are GET parameters, like Drakma. Open the attached HTML page in IE or Firefox and enter "a+b", then press the Return key. > It seems to me that http-request should make encoding of the > parameters optional, since a client program may need to deal with > encoded as well as unencoded strings. Otherwise, a caller of > http-request that already has encoded parameters must explicitly > decode them before calling. No, you are free to build the URL for Drakma yourself. Edi. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ drakma-devel mailing list drakma-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/drakma-devel
