I'm installing 4.1.30 (alpha) on a server now to see. --- Bill Faulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 801-302-8930
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 11:39 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: request.getParameter Error when "%" contained in parameter value There looks to be a patch against this region of code in 4.1.30. (As compared to 4.1.29) Does the same thing happen there? -Tim Bill Faulk wrote: > The same error occurs for "%25". If I put a "%" anywhere in the > parameter I get a crash. "4%" would pass a parameter to query > everything starting with 4 in my example. > > --- > Bill Faulk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 801-302-8930 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 11:12 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: request.getParameter Error when "%" contained in parameter > value > > > Why don't you use: http://website/findnaics.jsp?code=%25 > > -Tim > > Bill Faulk wrote: > > >>I am using Tomcat 4.1.29 on Windows 2000 Server with Java SDK 1.4.2. >> >>On the user query forms in my application "%" is a valid wildcard for >>"all" as it is in the actual database query. I don't want to use blank > > >>for all because I don't want users to accidentally search for all >>records; i.e. they have to actually enter % to search for all records >>in a value. Blank parameters are ignored. >> >>Passing % as a parameter via GET or POST causes the error >> >>http://website/findnaics.jsp?code=4% >> >>I am using POST methods for the forms as in... >> >><form method="POST" name="findform" action="findnaics.jsp"> >> >>The request.getParameter line is actually generating the error if the >>parameter contains a %. >> >>String code = request.getParameter("code"); >> >>I've seen this error when searching in regards to forwarding pages >>(http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3986) but it was >>considered "invalid" because forward expects an encoded url. However, >>I am simply passing a parameter and submitting a form. Doing something > > >>like 'action = <%= response.encodeURL("findnaics.jsp") %>' doesn't do >>anything for me. Using quotes/backslash, etc. doesn't make any >>difference. These query parameters can be passed by both GET and POST >>so encoding the URL isn't an option even if it did work. >> >>When "%" is passed as a parameter I get the following error for the >>getParameter statement. >> >>java.io.CharConversionException: EOF >> at >>org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.convert(UDecoder.java:177) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
