[dotNetRDF-bugs] Encoding problem with SesameHttpProtocolVersion6Connector and Update(...)

[Schwalbe, M. (S. 1) <mat...@cr...>]

Hi Rob,

There is a (simple) problem with SesameHttpProtocolVersion6Connector (and potentially other Connectors)
in calls to both the synchronous and asynchronous versions of the Update(...) function.

The SPARQL update queries get encoded in url encoded web form format:

httpRequest.ContentType<http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://System:4.0.0.0:b77a5c561934e089/System.Net.WebRequest/property:ContentType:String> = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";


The character set used by:

builder.Append<http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://mscorlib:4.0.0.0:b77a5c561934e089/System.Text.StringBuilder/Append(String):System.Text.StringBuilder>(HttpUtility<http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://System.Web:4.0.0.0:b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.HttpUtility>.UrlEncode<http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://System.Web:4.0.0.0:b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Web.HttpUtility/UrlEncode(String):String>(this.EscapeQuery<http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://dotNetRDF:0.9.0.0:6055ffe4c97cc780/VDS.RDF.Storage.BaseSesameHttpProtocolConnector/EscapeQuery(String):String>(sparqlUpdate)));

UrlEncode(...) is utf-8, but the default format for decoding application/x-www-form-urlencoded,
according to WEB documentation, is iso8859-1 which leads to garbled literal texts.
This happens once text in the query uses characters outside the Latin character range, e.g. Chinese
character, accented letters, umlauts.

The simplest way to fix this would be to explicitly also state the character encoding used:
httpRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8";

This character set it always used by UrlEncode(...)

Thanks a lot

sincerely yours

PS: I used the latest (yesterday) dotNetRdf build from NuGet

Matthias Schwalbe
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