+1 from me.
Glad to hear 2.0 beta is out. Looking forward to testing it out.
- Portia
"Pill, Juergen"
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04/08/2003 07:11 Subject: [VOTE] HttpClient and WebDAV
methods will do no additional encodi ng
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Hello,
We want to suggest a sematical interface change within the WebDAV method
implementation of the client API (org.apache.webdav.lib.methods.xxxMethod).
Currently some of those methods do url-encoding (with utf-8) some do not.
The basis of those classes is the HttpClient which expects all URLs already
encoded, e.g. does no extra URL encoding.
We suggest implementing the same behavior (no extra URL encoding) in the
WebDAV API layer too.
Reasons:
* consistency - if all the existing methods expect already encoded
paths, then users will expect it to work this way.
* preventing stupid bugs by users - imagine a case where a library
user does a HeadMethod request (already encoded), and then
discovers to their suprise that they cannot pass the exact same
URL to PropFindMethod, but must _decode_ the URL before passing it.
* import confusion - if you import the "GetMethod" from
webdavclient, rather than from httpclient, it is impossible to
tell except by looking back at your import statement whether the
URL should be encoded or not. I've tripped over this one.
* full URLs vs. partial paths - With the 2.0 release of HttpClient,
it is possible to pass either a full URLto a XxxMethod
constructor, or to set the HostConfiguration on HttpClient and
pass a server relative path to the XxxxMethod constructor. I
originally tripped over a problem because I was passing full URLs
to the PropFindMethod(), only to discover that
"http://localhost:8080/"; was getting converted to
"http%3A//localhost%3A8080/" and then failing.
Please vote:
Modify the WebDAV client API in a way that no additional encoding is taking
place. The calling layer will (need to) do the necessary encoding.
[ ] +1. I agree with the change.
[ ] +0. I don't care.
[ ] -1. I don't agree, because:
Best regards,
Juergen
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