#213 Semicolon not supported as URL param delimiter

[Luca]

according to
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2
section B2.2

";" should be supported as URL paramter delimiter.
httpunit supports only "&".

it fixed this problem by changing
private static final String PARAM_DELIM = "&";
into PARAM_DELIM = "&;";
in the class WebRequestSource

another change was necessary in the class WebResponse
in the method readRefreshRequest since the
StringTokenizer uses ";" as delimiter to separate the
refresh intervall from the URL.

[Russell Gold]

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What was that other change? What case led you to believe
that it was necessary?

[Luca]

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If you have a refresh in a web page like this:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="3;URL=http://www.myserver.com/myscript.cgi?param1=foo;param2=bar">

the URL gets truncated since httpunit uses a stringtokenizer
with delimiter ";" to separate the refresh delay from the
URL. If a semicolon is uses as parameter delimiter, the URL
gets truncated.

I fixed this by changing the method readRefreshRequest() of
the class WebResponse. see attached file.

[Luca]

method readRefreshRequest() of class WebResponse

[Wolfgang Fahl]

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Dear httpunit user!

Thank you for your bug report. We appreciate the time and effort you are putting into this.

Please supply a testcase with the expected result for the bug report that you are asking a solution for and we'll look into implementing it. For a start you might want to get the trunk version from the subversion repository (see https://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=6550\)
and have a look at the source code of some of the more than 700 JUnit based testcase in there.

If you do not use or have subversion tool you can still directly browse our test cases via:
http://httpunit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/httpunit/trunk/httpunit/test/com/meterware/httpunit/
Looking into one or more of the Junit Java source files
should give you a clue on what a proper testcase for httpunit looks like, often you will probably only have to "clone" an existing testcase and modify it slightly to your needs.

When you are ready you might want to attach the testcase (and if you already have started implementing a solution for it it also the actual code) to the patch section of the sourceforge.net tracker for patches of the httpunit project at
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Yours
The httpunit developer team

(Russell, Wolfgang, Mark, Patrick and Tim as of 2008-04)

[Wolfgang Fahl]

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Luca,

this is a very interesting bug report.
You'll find comments on in in the subversion trunk version 885.
I've not added your changes yet.

Yours
Wolfgang

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[Russell Gold]

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re-opening, as I think this one make sense.