i am attempting to use HttpUtility.UrlEncode to encode strings that ultimately are used in URLs.
example
/string/http://www.google.com
or
/string/my test string
where http://www.google.com is a parameter passed to a controller.
I have tried UrlEncode but it doesn't seem to work quite right
my route looks like:
routes.MapRoute(
"mStringView",
"mString/{sText}",
new { controller = "mString", action = "Index", sText = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
The problem is the encoded bits are decoded it seems somewhere in the routing.. except things like "+" which replace " " are not decoded..
Understanding my case, where a UrlParameter can be any string, including URL's.. what is the best way to encode them before pushing them into my db, and then handling the decode knowing they will be passed to a controller as a parameter?
thanks!
It seems this problem has come up in other forums and the general recommendation is to not rely on standard url encoding for asp.net mvc. The advantage is url encoding is not necessarily as user friendly as we want, which is one of the goals of custom routed urls. For example, this:
http://server.com/products/Goods+%26+Services
can be friendlier written as
http://server.com/products/Good-and-Services
So custom url encoding has advantages beyond working around this quirk/bug. More details and examples here:
http://www.dominicpettifer.co.uk/Blog/34/asp-net-mvc-and-clean-seo-friendly-urls
You could convert the parameter to byte array and use the HttpServerUtility.UrlTokenEncode
If the problem is that the "+" doesn't get decoded, use HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode to encode and the decoding will work as desired.
From the documentation of HttpUtility.UrlEncode:
You can encode a URL using with the UrlEncode method or the
UrlPathEncode method. However, the methods return different results.
The UrlEncode method converts each space character to a plus character
(+). The UrlPathEncode method converts each space character into the
string "%20", which represents a space in hexadecimal notation. Use
the UrlPathEncode method when you encode the path portion of a URL in
order to guarantee a consistent decoded URL, regardless of which
platform or browser performs the decoding.
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I'm writing app using Google custom search engine.
I received my search engine ID XXXXXXXX219143826571:7h9XXXXXXX (most interesting part bold).
Now I'm trying to use NSURLQueryItem to embed my ID into URL by using:
let params = ["cx" : engineID,...]
...
components.queryItems = parameters.map {
NSURLQueryItem(name: String($0), value: String($1))
}
It should percentage escape item to XXXXXXXX219143826571%3A7h9XXXXXXX (This value I'm getting when using Google APIs explorer while testing, it shows url dress that was used). It is not doing it. I'm getting url without escaping, no changes. If I use escaped string as engine ID in this mapping, I'm getting escaped string XXXXXXXX219143826571%253A7h9XXXXXXX (additional '25' is added to query).
Can someone tell me how to fix it? I don't want to use String and then convert it to URL by NSURL(string: str)!. It is not elegant.
Edit:
I'm using app Info.plist to save ID and I retrieve it by calling:
String(NSBundle.mainBundle().objectForInfoDictionaryKey("ApiKey")!)
Colons are allows in the query part of a URL string. There should be no need to escape them.
Strictly speaking, the only things that absolutely have to be encoded in that part of a URL are ampersands, hash marks (#), and (assuming you're doing a GET query with form encoding) equals signs. However, question marks in theory may cause problems, slashes are technically not allowed (but work just fine), and semicolons are technically allowed (but again, work in practice).
Colons, AFAIK, only have special meaning in the context of paths (if the OS treats it as a path separator) and in that it separates the scheme (protocol) from the rest of the URL.
So don't worry about the colon being unencoded unless the Google API barfs for some reason.
I would like to make a simple GET request via Spray with a few query parameters
Get("http://localhost/user?email=abc+a#abc.com")
However + means a space in application/x-www-form-urlencoded content resulting the call to http://localhost/user?email=abc a#abc.com (with a space instead of plus sign).
I could use a non-Spray java.net.URLEncoder to encode the URL before passing it to the GET request however I doing this every time seems like a hack.
Is there a Spray way of applying query parameters and encoding them?
Uri("http://localhost/").withQuery(Map("email"->"abc+a#abc.com")) is a nice way to construct a Uri but it doesn't encode the params as well...
Actually Uri("http://localhost/").withQuery(Map("email"->"abc+a#abc.com")) works fine as it encodes the special symbols.
However, Uri("http://localhost/").withQuery("email=abc+a#abc.com") doesn't.
I use java.net.URLEncoder. I believe that is the accepted method.
It would be nice if that happened automatically!
how can one send float values to a RESTful API?
/api/set/integername/49
/api/set/charname/B
/api/set/floatname/49.33
The third one doesn't work.
404: Not Found
Can float values be encoded somehow to make this possible or do I have to wrap it in a json object?
I would just do something simple like convert the decimal point to an underscore :) It's less messy than URL encoding.
Do you have to support scientific notation (ex 1.5e+20)? In that case you'll have to deal with + and -.
(though - doesn't need encoding)
This is a duplicate question to Passing double/float through URL to Web Api query string
The answer provided there was to add a slash to the end of the querystring. I've just tested that with a blank Microsoft WebApi2 project and it works a treat.
Having a method like this:
#GET #Path("/name/{name}")
#Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String getProperty(#PathParam("name") String name) {
System.out.println(name);
}
How do I pass a value like "test./test"?
/name/test./test gives HTTP 404
/name/test.%2Ftest gives HTTP 400
/name/test.%252Ftest prints test%2Ftest
But if I do name = URLDecoder.decode(name); it prints /test and the first part of test. disappears.
There is one or two questions like this already but they are old and there was no good solution found, I thought I'll ask again.
The pattern in the #Path annotation is internally turned into a regular expression, with the template parts matching only selected characters by default. In particular, they normally don't match / characters; that's almost always the right thing to do (as it lets you put templates part way through a path) but in this case it isn't as you're wanting to consume the whole subsequent path. To get everything, we have to override the regular expression fragment for that particular template; this is actually pretty easy, since we just put in the template fragment a : followed by the RE that we want to use:
#GET #Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
#Path("/name/{name:.+}")
public String getProperty(#PathParam("name") String name) {
return name;
}
This will match all characters after the /name/ (up to but not including any ? query part) but will only match if there's something there at all. Be aware that if you have any other #Path("/name/...") things about, things can get really confusing! So don't do that.
If you using tomcat, and want pass / in pathparam. besides the #Path("/name/{name:.+}") stuff as 'Donal Fellows' said, you should add -Dorg.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH=true to your jvm arguments, see also tomcat security-howto.
Try specifying the encoding type, the following works for me with /name/test.%252Ftest:
System.out.println(URLDecoder.decode(name, "UTF-8"));
return URLDecoder.decode(name, "UTF-8");
Glassfish v4 accept encoded scape for slash %2f. Then we can pass the encoded String test.%2Ftest and get the result test./test using URLDecoder.decode(name, "UTF-8"). I think this is a better solution especially when you have many params in one request. Using the path #Path("/name/{name:.+}") is great solution when we have few parameters in a request.
Using %252f complicates the client request becouse are needed to contruct the encoding request String manually. With glassfish v4 it's easy to use percent encoding with URLEncoder.encode in client and URLDecoder.decode in server to wished Strings. The most programing languages has percent encoding and decoding, therefore it's perfect solution.
I tried enable encoded slash in glassfish v3 but no success, here is the sintaxe I tried used
bin\asadmin set configs.config.server-config.network-config.protocols.protocol.http-listener-1.http.encoded-slash-enabled=true configs.config.server-config.network-config.protocols.protocol.http-listener-1.http.encoded-slash-enabled=true
Command set executed successfully.
Regards
Cassio Seffrin
We have a system that sends out regular emails with links in, many of which contain URL encoded parameters such as this:
href="http://www.mydomain.com/login.aspx?returnurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydomain.com%2Fview.aspx%3Fid%3D1234%26alert%3Dtrue"
You can see that the "returnurl" parameter is encoded. However, it seems that a large number of our users (seemingly hotmail) are receiving the emails with this paramater partly decoded such as:
href="http://www.mydomain.com/login.aspx?returnurl=http://www.mydomain.com/view.aspx?view.aspx%3Fid%3D1234%26alert%3Dtrue"
Why would it decode like this? Why only partly decode?? I therefore have no idea how to deal with it. I thought of base-64 encoding but that base64 strings contain characters that would need decoding too... I thought of double encoding but then I will not know whether to double-decode the parameter or not... Can anyone help? Thanks.
One reason this could be happening is because url rules for encoding are different before and after ? so if mechanism that is doing decoding does it from the 'back' of url and apples query decoding rules until it finds first ? then this could cause problem you are describing...
Not sure how to deal with it though as I understand system that does this inappropriate decoding is outside of your control. I would try to hide the ? in return url query somehow...