Re: [Erlyaws-list] Yaws munching HTML postdata

[Daniel S. <da...@er...>]

Would this change with RFC1738

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   Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
   reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
   unencoded within a URL.
----- end snip

Regards

On Monday 26 September 2005 12:35, Rob Schmersel wrote:
> Thinus Pollard wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > We're sending an http request to yaws. See (1). The request contains a
> > string called ussdString. This string is a uuencoded string
> >
> > ussdString="*116*111*AAEGAGQAABEzAABgNIUgAABRdNAABYcAAAAAAAAAgQ6+8zh0D9iB
> >Dr7zOHQP2A==1#"
> >
> > Yaws captures this data via script (2).
> >
> > In our logs we get the string as:
> > ussdString=\"*116*111*AAEGAGQAABEzAABgNIUgAABWEtAABYcAAAAAAAAAgQ6<space>8
> >zh0D9iBDr7zOHQP2A==1#\"
> >
> > What's happing is that yaws is dropping the '+' character from our string
> > and inserting a space (verified as ascii code 32 (decimal)) in its place.
>
> <snip some additonal info>
>
> This is correct behaviour and is due to url encoding, that is making a
> string safe to be send in a URL, One of the things that happens  is that
> a space is translated into a '+' sign. Yaws 'decodes any string and thus
> transfers any '+' into a space.
> In order to have this working correctly you'll have to URL encode the
> string before you send it (the '+' sign will then be transferred into a
> %xx, which yaws will correctly decode)
>
> Regards
> /Rob
>
>
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