I'm having a weird problem with escaped characters in the query part of a URI. In the old, alpha1 version of HttpClient, we used URIUtil.encodeAll() to encode our query parameter values, and it escaped spaces with "+", resulting in "Mountain+View". With the latest HttpClient, we use URIUtil.encodeWithinQuery(). If we encode a query like "Mountain View", we get back "Mountain%20View".
Does anyone know why this behavior changed? Our app server is barfing on it for some reason and giving the JSP the encoded string with the %20 in it when it calls getParameter. (This is probably a bug in the server, but our applications group is on my case because the behavior of our client changed.)
The background ere is that for legacy reasons, we build up the query part of the URL ourselves, encoding each parameter as we append it to the string. Then we create a java.net.URL object out of it (yuck). Finally, at fetch time, we do new URI(url.toString()). (Double yuck.)
I'm going to play with this a bit more. It may be that I don't even have to encode the query strings myself, and that the new URI constructor will do it for me. But I figured I'd ask here and see if anyone knew what had changed or had run into a problem like this before.
Laura Werner BeVocal
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