Thanks Gustaf
An issue arose during migration testing which was breaking some of our existing
AOLserver code, then when I saw the documentation issue, I thought best to
check with the list that maybe there was an issue with the Windows version.
I'll dig into our code and see what the problem is exactly.
thanks
Brian
From: Gustaf Neumann [mailto:neum...@wu.ac.at]
Sent: 12 May 2017 14:52
To: naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [naviserver-devel] ns_urlencode on Windows Naviserver
Am 12.05.17 um 13:41 schrieb Brian Fenton:
Thank you David
So, assuming the documentation is incorrect
https://naviserver.sourceforge.io/n/naviserver/files/ns_urlencode.html it
seems that the API has been changed from AOLserver.
Brian
Brian, are you worried about the literal comparison in a test case, or is there
a deeper background?
Some more background: ns_urlencode in AOLserver was always incorrect in respect
to the RFCs, which define different encodings for the "path" and the "query"
part of an URL. Therefore many years ago, NaviServer added flags "-part" to
specify the encoding (implementing an extension of RFC1738 (1994)).
In the (unreleased) tip version of NaviServer on bitbucket, i've updated the
implementation to be in sync with valid RFCs (RFC 3986 for URIs and RFC 6265,
cookie encodings). So if one compares the result of a tip version of NaviServer
with the documentation of the released version, the results differ (btw., the
example on the NaviServer man page is bad). See about the changes in the tip
see e.g. [1] and the following postings.
-g
[1]
https://sourceforge.net/p/naviserver/mailman/naviserver-devel/?limit=50&viewmonth=201703&viewday=22
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WU Vienna
Institute of Information Systems and New Media
Welthandelsplatz 1, A-1020 Vienna, Austria
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