[jira] [Created] (HTTPCLIENT-1516) URL-encoded form paramters - missing '=' for null-values

["Stanley Hillner (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Stanley Hillner created HTTPCLIENT-1516:
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             Summary: URL-encoded form paramters - missing '=' for null-values
                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1516
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1516
             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: HttpClient
    Affects Versions: 4.3.4, 4.3.3, 4.3.2, 4.2.6, 4.3.5
            Reporter: Stanley Hillner


If you pass {{null}} as the value for a post parameter and use URL-encoded form parameters the Method {{org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils#format}} omits the separator character ({{=}}) for this parameter which results in urls like the following.
{{http://example.org/test?a=1&b&c=2}}
In this case parameter {{b}} was assigned {{null}} as its value.

It is not totally clear if the key/value separator character must be present even if the value is omitted (RFC 1738 doesn't handle this case) but this implementation leads to incompatibilities to other systems.

I encountered this issue with httpclient 4.2.1 on the one side and undertow web server shipped with Wildfly 8.0.0.Final.

I also opened an issue for undertow just to clarify the correct handling of null-values for url-parameters: [https://issues.jboss.org/browse/UNDERTOW-258]



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