[HTTPCLIENT-642] browser encoded UTF-8 character gets truncated by URI upon escaping

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ralf Hauser
• Created: 09/Mar/07 17:50
• Updated: 11/Aug/07 12:39
• Resolved: 10/Mar/07 18:29

Description

a mozilla 1.5.0.10 get request of an iso-8859-1 form where a user inadvertently entered a chinese character arrives at my tomcat like

String url= "/hp/index.php?address=addr&email=[e-mail]&name=Ralf能 GMX&subject=Newsletter"

the chinese charcter 能 being encoded as 能

URI uri = new URI(url, false, "ISO-8859-1");
GetMethod httpGet = new GetMethod(uri.getEscapedURI());
log.debug(httpGet.getURI());

"/hp/index.php?address=addr&email=[e-mail]&name=Ralf&"

How should I deal with that until the v4 is out? Will that no longer happen there?

see also HTTPCLIENT-577