IllegalArgumentException Exception in URLDecoder

Kirk Daries <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
Message-ID <D09B591872D1D611AF2B0010B5A1AAD091487C@WCSMAIL>
Hi Guys,

I'm running into a exception...

Basically... when I submit any text containing the symbol '%', it falls
over.
E.g. 
req.getQueryString() is: p_comments=Test+%25

Which is "Test %"

I've traced it to the HttpServletRequestWrapper class, line 398.

Which says, 
queryString = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(queryString);

I think the decode function is attempting to 'decode' the string a second
time..

Help?
Regards
KD

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in
escape (%) pattern - For input string: "&p"
	at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:168)
	at java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:82)
	at
org.enhydra.barracuda.core.helper.servlet.HttpServletRequestWrapper.getParam
eter(HttpServletRequestWrapper.java:398)
	at
org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.DefaultEventContext.restoreContext(DefaultE
ventContext.java:224)
	at
org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.DefaultEventContext.(DefaultEventContext.ja
va:74)
	at
org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.ApplicationGateway.handleDefaultExt(Applica
tionGateway.java:398)
	at
org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.ApplicationGateway.handleDefault(Applicatio
nGateway.java:234)
	at
org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.ApplicationGateway.doGet(ApplicationGateway
.java:717)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application
FilterChain.java:247)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh
ain.java:193)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja
va:256)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja
va:191)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2415)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180
)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
	at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.
java:171)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
	at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172
)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java
:174)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
	at
org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223)
	at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:594)
	at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConne
ction(Http11Protocol.java:392)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:565)
	at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav
a:619)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
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