Thank you, your reply helped me a lot. I ended up studying the PostMethod class, figured out where the post parameters were encoded, and created a new class similar to it that didn't encode them. Worked instantly.
Hope that helps someone else down the road... -----Original Message----- From: Roland Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9 janvier 2007 13:57 To: HttpClient User Discussion Subject: Re: Escaping of form parameters Hello Jacques, > Using HttpClient, the request fails. Here's the log of the request : > > ===== START ===== > 2007/01/09 08:43:23:640 EST [DEBUG] header - >> "POST [...] > 2007/01/09 08:43:23:921 EST [DEBUG] header - >> "x-ajax-cap-length: > 113|<=-[\r][\n]" > [...] > 2007/01/09 08:43:23:953 EST [DEBUG] header - >> "Content-Type: > application/x-www-form-urlencoded[\r][\n]" > 2007/01/09 08:43:23:953 EST [DEBUG] header - >> "[\r][\n]" > 2007/01/09 08:43:23:953 EST [DEBUG] content - >> > "%3Clogin-request%3E%3CuserID%3Ethe user id%3C%2FuserID%3E%3Cpassword%3Ethe > password%3C%2Fpassword%3E%3Caction%3Elogin%3C%2Faction%3E%3C%2Flogin-request > %3E%3C=-++++++" > ===== END ===== > > The problem seems to be that the POST parameter name is escaped when > HttpClient is used. What you are sending are not name/value pairs at all. Which means that the Content-Type header is misleading. If that's what the server wants, so be it. But by squeezing your data into a name/value pair, you get extra data in the body, which will cause problems with the length part of the x-ajax-cap-length header. Since you're not sending name/value pairs in the default format, you should use StringRequestEntity to define the content of the POST request: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/commons/http client/methods/StringRequestEntity.html http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/commons/http client/methods/EntityEnclosingMethod.html#setRequestEntity(org.apache.common s.httpclient.methods.RequestEntity) Then there will be no escaping. hope that helps, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
