[jira] [Created] (HTTPCORE-738) URIBuilder:: path with asterisk * is encoded differently compared to java.lang.URI

["Florin Slev (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Florin Slev created HTTPCORE-738:
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             Summary: URIBuilder:: path with asterisk * is encoded differently compared to java.lang.URI
                 Key: HTTPCORE-738
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCORE-738
             Project: HttpComponents HttpCore
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: HttpCore
    Affects Versions: 5.2.1
            Reporter: Florin Slev


It seems Apache URIBuilder encodes URL asterisk characters as %2A.

While  java.lang.URI doesn't:
 
{code:java}
 final URI uri = new URI("http", null, "localhost", 80, "/books*", null, null);
        final URIBuilder uribuilder = new URIBuilder().setScheme("http").setHost("localhost").setPort(80).setPath("/books*");
        final URI result = uribuilder.build();
        assertEquals(uri, result);
 {code}
=>
{code}
expected: <http://localhost:80/books*> but was: <http://localhost:80/books%2A>
{code}

According to www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
{code}
Reserved:

   Usually a URL has the same interpretation when an octet is
   represented by a character and when it encoded. However, this is not
   true for reserved characters: encoding a character reserved for a
   particular scheme may change the semantics of a URL.

   Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
   reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
   unencoded within a URL.
{code}

Is the asterisk encoding intended inside Apache URIBuilder ?



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