Re: URL encoding and the "+" char

Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 12:08:39 AM, Dan Washusen wrote:

> Hey All,
> I'm attempting to add a base64 encoded string as a URL parameter in a FM template.
>
> <a id="activate" href="action?token=${token?url}">Click Here</a>
>
> This works fine but it appears that the Freemarker URL encoding
> doesn't encode the "+" chars contained in the token.  When I attempt
> to decode the token using either commons-codec or the
> java.util.URLDecoder the "+" is replaced by a space (" ") and my token is corrupt.
>
> So I guess my question is; is this a bug or a feature?  

That would be a major bug, as ?url is for escaping query parameters.
But for me it works. This is the template I tried:

  <#setting url_escaping_charset='utf-8'>
  ${.version}
  ${"a/b+c d"?url}

and its output was:

  2.3.16
  a%2Fb%2Bc%20d

What is the output on your setup? (Note that I didn't even find any
version history entry that says that ?url had a bug in earlier
FreeMarker versions.)

> Cheers,
> Dan

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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