Thanks Roland. I'm close enough to hopefully get them to make the required changes at there end.
Cheers On 7 Oct 2011, at 12:58, Roland King wrote: > Is that a valid URL? I looked at the old RFC from 1994 and that defines '[' > and ']' as 'national' characters and states they must not appear in URLs. > > So it would seem the online retailer you're dealing with accepts URLs it > shouldn't accept, but doesn't accept the properly encoded version of them. Do > they have an alternate syntax you can use in requests or are you working with > them closely enough you can discuss getting their server to accept the > encoded versions of '[' and ']' which are I think the correct way to send > them. > > On Oct 7, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Martin Linklater wrote: > >> Hi - I'm writing an iOS client for an online retailer and I'm having trouble >> with the way NSURL encodes square brackets. I'm building an http request >> using a string then converting it to a NSURL before calling [NSData >> dataWithContentsOfURL]. >> >> The troblesome piece of the http path is: &prices[1821561]=1 >> >> This gets converted to this in NSURL: &prices%5B1821561%5D=1 >> >> I don't know much about HTTP formatting but is there a way around this >> problem ? The Android version of our App is working fine since we pass the >> request in with the square brackets in-tact. How can I do this with NSURL ? >> >> Thanks for any help you can >> give._______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org >> >> This email sent to r...@rols.org > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
