[CXF-5168] Impossible to pass '+' character as is as part of HTTP query with WebClient

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: JAX-RS
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin
• Reporter: Sergey Beryozkin
• Created: 30/Jul/13 13:44
• Updated: 16/Feb/15 16:31
• Resolved: 02/Dec/14 10:55

Description

URL Encoder encodes "+" as "%2B" however this may affect the servers expecting '+' as is, in fact '+' is not a query reserved character.
What further complicates is that URL encoder will encode ' ' as '+'.

The path encoding process manages it correctly, it will retain '+' and will encode ' ' as '%20'.

For query: we need to keep '+' as is and if users want it as '%2B' they they can directly use '%2B'. The same goes for ' ' - encoding it to '+' has not been a problem so far but if they need they can always use '%20'

Issue Links

• duplicates: CXF-6122 JAX-RS proxy client with @QueryParam is not encoding the parameter value