[FLEX-18973] HTTPService is over-zealous when percent-encoding the query string

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Later
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.3 (Release)
• Component/s: RPC: HTTPService
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Browser: Safari; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 28/Apr/09 17:55
• Updated: 04/Jun/09 06:43
• Resolved: 03/Jun/09 20:02

Description

Steps to reproduce:
Use an HTTPService instance to submit a "GET" request to an HTTP server:

• content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• with a query-string parameter containing a non-reserved, non-alphanumeric character _ . - or ~ to an HTTP server.

For information on when to percent-encode a URI, see the RFT at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.3

Actual Results:
The non-reserved, non-alphanumeric characters _ . - or ~ are percent-encoded.

Expected Results:
The non-reserved alpha-numeric characters should not be percent-encoded.

Workaround (if any):
Manually construct your query-string and assign it to the "url" property of your HTTPService instance, and pass no parameters to the "send" method.