--- David LeBer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 16-Nov-05, at 5:24 AM, Dev WO wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I don't think the bug is in the hyperlink generation, because it
> > was doing this in 5.2.2 and before (which isn't that old;)) and no
>
> > one mentioned a bug about this. And at least the & in the
> > source code of the (X)HTML is the correct way of doing it.
>
> This is not the issue. Having encoded ampersands in the source html
> is fine (and expected). It is having encoded ampersands in the
> request that is causing the problem.
>
> <snip>
> > I'm not as advance as any of you in WO, but I have some simple DA
> > which lead to a product based on its PK like
> > productPK=15&wosid=blabla
> > and it works just fine...
> > Maybe because there's not that much parameter and I'm requesting
> > the value of the first one.
> > The wosid is working well too, so it must be getting correctly
> too...
> > As I told you I'm not enough "good" to tell you what's wrong:( The
>
> > only thing I can say is that the & in an hyperlink is correct.
>
> To clarify: Generating a url for inclusion on a page works. The
> encoded ampersands that separate the query parameters are appropriate
>
> in that context. However if you hand that url to a WORedirect (not
> rendered on a page and interpreted by a web browser) the encoded
> ampersands are being sent to the server in the request. That fails
> with the results I documented.
>
> As I mentioned before I don't know how it *should* work (whether the
>
> request should gracefully handle encoded ampersands, or whether
> WORedirect should convert the encoded ampersands before passing them
>
> on). All I know is that is where it is failing.
>
> <snip>
>
> >> Pre: {valueZero = "Zero"; valueTwo = "Two"; valueOne = "1"; }
> >> URL: /cgi-bin/WebObjects/TestRedirect.woa/-50628/wa/default?
> >>
> valueZero=Zero&valueTwo=Two&valueOne=1&wosid=LDHjmeMHbkGC
>
> >> QGRnoremEw
> >> Post: {valueZero = ("Zero"); amp;valueTwo = ("Two"); amp;valueOne
>
> >> = ("1"); amp;wosid = ("LDHjmeMHbkGCQGRnoremEw"); }
> >> Keys: ("valueZero", "amp;valueTwo", "amp;valueOne", "amp;wosid")
>
> > I'm asking this just to understand, why are you using "post" on a
> > hyperlink?
> > If it's a form so there's nothing written in the (X)HTML source
> > code and the form will submit with & as it's passing parameter
> > (which is correct).
> > There's no "post" action for a hyperlink.
> >
> > Could you clarify what you trying to do?
> > It may be obvious, but I don't understand with my limited
> knowledge;)
>
> Sorry, no post action. Poor choice of NSLog identifiers. The 'Pre'
> string is the query dictionary before being sent, the 'URL' string is
>
> the generated url, and the 'Post' string is the query dictionary in
> the DirectAction request.
>
> Also informative is to take a look at the raw query string
> (everything after the '?' in the request url) in the request()
>
> // in the DirectAction
> NSLog.out.appendln("Query String: " + request().queryString());
>
> From a WOHyperlink request (a url rendered to a page and interpreted
>
> by a browser) you get something like this:
>
> productPK=15&wosid=blabla
>
> From a WORedirect request you get something like this:
>
> productPK=15&wosid=blabla
>
> This is the problem (see disclaimer above). WO burps on decoding this
>
> request, the result is that the keys for the resulting form values
> dictionary have 'amp;' (everything after the &) appended to them.
>
> As an ugly hack I'm calling replaceAll("&", "&") on the url
> before I hand it off to the WORedirect. Yuck.
>
> --
> ;david
>
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> David LeBer
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>
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