The production proxy server converts space characters in POSTed data to '+', but leaves '+' characters alone. A receiving website can't tell, when it sees a '+' whether it was an original '+', or whether it started life as a ' '. As an example, a POST of: abc 123+456 would be received as: abc+123+456 A workaround for this is to %-encode the plus characters as %2B. A POST of: abc 123%2B456 would be received as: abc+123%2B456 However, the url-encoding has changed in the prerelease server. If LZ77 conversion is used (ctpConvNoneLZ77), then neither the space nor the + character is encoded, so a POST of: abc 123+456 would be received as: abc 123+456 If LZ77 conversion is not used (ctpConvNone), then space characters are converted to '+', but, in addition, '+' characters are %-encoded to %2b. So, a POST of: abc 123+456 would be received as: abc+123%2B456 However, in this non-LZ77 case, it also always %-encodes the % character. Thus, the workaround version POST of: abc 123%2B456 is seen by the server ase: abc+123%252B456 The problem comes about if you've got code that wants to work with both the production and pre-release servers. If your app doesn't %-encode the plus character as %2B, the production server will cause ' ' and '+' to both map to '+'. On the other hand, if you do %-encode the plus, then the pre-release server will %-encode the % you used for encoding. What's a compatible application to do? Testing done with POSE 3.0a7, Test, INetLow, and the very handy URL <http://207.175.161.68/scripts/posttext.dll> that displays the received POSTed data. Thanks, Neil Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
