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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1516?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Oleg Kalnichevski resolved HTTPCLIENT-1516.
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    Resolution: Not a Problem

You can easily work the problem around by replacing null values with an empty value if these are semantically the same.

Oleg

> 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: 4.2.6, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 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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