Hi All, It is a common practice to encode special characters such as ' ', %, #, :, $ etc.. when sending parameters in the query string along with the URL. We have a similar requirement. Some of the query parameters can contain special characters and therefore we went for UTf-8 encoding.
Before using the encoded parameters we call request.getParameter() in the struts action class, decode these parameters and then do any further processing. The problem comes when % is a part of the parameter value. For instance the drugName parameter contains a value *pan% jon%. *This gets encoded into *pan%25+jon%25*. The problem comes when we say request.getParameter() in the action class. The value we get is already decoded to *pan% jon%. *So now when we run the decoder it throws an exception. *How do i stop the automatic decoding of query parameters and do decoding of all the query parameters explicitely? * Madhav -- When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do
