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Re: strange behaviour of Descriptor

sulabh120881 — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:40:18 +0200

Thanks a lot Sir
It is really helpful

Re: strange behaviour of Descriptor

rbrunner — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:47:55 +0200

You mentioned that you work with Java Servlets.

Well, this tutorial here that a quick Google search turned up mentions that % problem and says that the servlet methods all handle this automatically:
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/

So I wonder where you run into problems?

Re: strange behaviour of Descriptor

sulabh120881 — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:12:24 +0200

Thanks to all of you

I can't leave such character, Please tell me how can i decode this string on server side

Re: strange behaviour of Descriptor

rbrunner — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:48:15 +0200

You probably can't prevent this from happening, as it is indeed a requirement of the relevant Internet standards that special characters like # are encoded as %23.

I think you have 2 choices: Prevent this from happening by simply not using such characters for the strings that you send (difficult, maybe impossible), or decode the strings on the server side (probably trivial, maybe done with just one method call).

Re: strange behaviour of Descriptor

sulabh120881 — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:09:18 +0200

why this only tanslate the special character any method to prevent this from encoding

thanks

Re: strange behaviour of Descriptor

alh — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:31:42 +0200

I don't think there is anything really "wrong" with it.

Part of the HTTP standard or URL standard or whatever (I'm no web guy) says you translate "special" characters to that %-form.

Your servlet should be able to handle it and translate it back.

strange behaviour of Descriptor

sulabh120881 — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:18:24 +0200

Hi to all,

I am trying to send a string value from my application to java servlet using HTTP api
like
//eg "sulabh#04"
TBuf<40 > iName;
iName.Append(username);
iName.Append(_L("#"));
iName.Append(password);
iFormEncoder->AddFieldL(KPostParamName, iName);

but when i recieve this on servlet side it becomes "sulabh%2304"
I am not getting what is the reason behind this.