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Ralf Handl edited comment on OLINGO-752 at 8/11/15 7:54 AM: ------------------------------------------------------------ The + character is a valid character in URLs that does not have to be percent-encoded. In OData-URLs it can appear - within numbers, e.g. +3.14, 1e+2 - within strings, e.g. 'Divide+Conquer' How can the server safely decide whether the client is using form-URL-encoding, or standard URL-encoding? - $filter=contains(Name,'+') could either mean - all entities whose Name contains a plus character if the client is a standard OData client, or - all entities whose Name contains a space character if the client is a form-encoding client was (Author: ralfhandl): The + character is a valid character in URLs that does not have to be percent-encoded. In OData-URLs it can appear - within numbers, e.g. +3.14, 1e+2 - within strings, e.g. 'Divide+Conquer' How can the server safely decide whether the client is using form-URL-encoding, or standard URL-encoding? > Add support for "+" sign as a separator in addition to %20 for URLs > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OLINGO-752 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OLINGO-752 > Project: Olingo > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: odata2-core > Affects Versions: V2 2.0.4, (Java) V4 4.0.0-beta-03 > Reporter: Ronny Bremer > Priority: Minor > > Some well-known OData client libraries, such as JQuery, are using the > incorrect encoding for URLs sent to OLingo based OData v2 services. > According to the OData V2 standard, the separator for encoded URLs is %20. > However, in many cases when developers talk about "URL encoding", they use > Java functions like "URLEncoder.encode()" to encode the parameters for their > HTTP request. JQuery seems to utilise a similar function in JavaScript. > Now these functions are based on the HTTP forms encoding standard, so they > use "+" as a separator. > If would be small but grateful addition to the OLingo URI parser to accept > both separator characters. Maybe with a config option to follow the standard > (so only accept %20) or to be more relaxed (and accept both). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)