This is new behavior I haven't seen before and have serveral apps running with javascript on gae that dont display this symptom. The symptom only occurs only on new deployment, not locally. A brief summary is in this thread.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/d404ca7955a2bb5f Basically any file I'm loading via a file system or network io read seems to have the backslash character in strings again escaped. so "a \nb" becomes "a\\nb" which meas that rendering string to the response body results in a\nb instead of a b More importantly it causes RegExp constructor to fail tests because escaped characters are double escaped, eg RegExp("\\w+") becomes RegExp("\\\\w+"). Finally the simpliest test comes from loading a very small file into rhino (this is js.jar not built-in rhino for java 1.6). Here is the file: print('what is the length of two back slash: '+'\\'.length); Locally, the dev server, does as expected and I get a message: what is the length of two back slash: 1 on GAE I get firm evidence that the string has been modified: what is the length of two back slash: 2 Can anyone think what I might have done to trigger this behavior myself? Is there some sort of security mechanism at work here to prevent string injection? Is it possible that its a GZIP issue on GAE? Any help would be greatly appreciated as my apps will no longer deploy but the existing versions are working correctly. Thanks Thatcher -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
