Re: URL encoding and the "+" char

My bad!

The FM url encoding works fine... I was double decoding the activate link by
doing "new URI(link).getQuery()" and then using commons codec.  As it turns
out the URI instance was decoding the query part...

On 2 June 2010 17:54, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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