[HTTPCLIENT-2001] Plus sign in URL has stopped working

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 4.5.7, 4.5.8, 4.5.9
• Environment: Windows
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tushar Patel
• Created: 10/Jul/19 06:01
• Updated: 15/Jul/19 08:44
• Resolved: 10/Jul/19 12:41

Description

We have integrated access to AWS S3 using AWS S3 SDK. We have been using AmazonS3#doesObjectExists for a long time and accessing the below URL for example used to work fine until we bumped httpclient version to 4.5.7

URL - https://mytestbucket.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/testfolder/My+Test+Data.xml 

 

I can see that the problem is because the URI is getting rewritten differently now after the execution of

ProtocolExec#rewriteRequestURI

 

The final request before execution has the URI as

Version 4.5.6 - testfolder/My%2BTest%2BData.xml (Works)

Version 4.5.7 onwards - testfolder/My+Test+Data.xml (Does not work)