[jira] Commented: (GERONIMO-3638) should allow URL encoding with custom encoding charset other than the default

["Jay D. McHugh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jay D. McHugh commented on GERONIMO-3638:
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Content can be in any character set, but I am pretty sure that you are only allowed to use a portion of the 8859 character set in URLs.

<snippet from RFC1738>
Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters used for their reserved  purposes may be used unencoded within a URL.
</snippet>

Since this is an HTTP client, shouldn't it be limited to the characters allowed by the URL spec?

> should allow URL encoding with custom encoding charset other than the default
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: GERONIMO-3638
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3638
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: AsyncHttpClient
>    Affects Versions: 1.x
>            Reporter: Sangjin Lee
>         Attachments: patch.zip
>
>
> Currently AsyncHttpClient uses Chartset.defaultCharset() when it encodes the query string.  However, applications may want to use a different encoding than the machine default charset; e.g. UTF-8.  It needs to provide a way to specify an encoding that AHC should use to encode the query string.

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