URLs with +'s

[Joe Barnes]

While working on npmaven, I decided to use Pamflet for generating the browser content.  I hit a snag when I discovered that Lift doesn't like a URL with a + in it, such as the Combined Pages link.  Lift will say the resource cannot be found.  Replacing each + with a %2B works like a charm, tho.

I don't quite see how I can make Lift accept a + in the link.  I can see a way where I could find all of the anchors in each document, replacing the +'s with %2B's.  I'm curious if there is an easy solution before I work too hard.  What is the best way to make these links work?  

Joe

[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

This probably isn't Lift, but Jetty. More on the weirdnesses with + at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005676/urls-and-plus-signs .

I guess there may also be security concerns? See http://serverfault.com/questions/76013/iis6-vs-iis7-and-iis7-5-handling-urls-with-plus-sign-in-base-not-querystr .

I don't guarantee that it's Jetty, though—worth checking is whether we do any explicit URI decoding

or whether we let Jetty deal with it (I suspect the latter).

Thanks,

Antonio

[Andreas Joseph Krogh]

This issue rings a bell and I believe we've had this discussion before (searching the archives will probably tell). IIRC this is could (and should IMHO) be fixed in Lift but nobody has ever done anything to improve the situation.

 

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[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

If it's something we can clearly trace back to Lift, I'd probably be willing to look at fixing it,

depending on whether it would break other things.

Thanks,

Antonio

[Joe Barnes]

I'm gonna be quite busy in the coming days with Scaladays next week, so it's unlikely I'll have an opportunity to investigate this further any time soon.  For what it's worth, I got around it by writing a snippet that converted all of those links from +'s to %2B or whatever code it was. :)

Joe

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