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[souporpower]

Hi All

I am using ajax as follows:

var parameters = "groups=" + escape(my*********@gmail.com);
var url="/mydomain/ajaxCall";

if (req != null) {

req.open("POST", url, true);
req.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded");
req.send(parameters);
req.onreadystatechange=processResp2;
}

I noticed that inside the ajaxCall the plus (+) sign is replaced with
a space in the string escaped (myemail 10*@gmal.com)

Could someone tell me how to do this correctly?

Thanks

[Bart Van der Donck]

[e-mail] wrote:

I am using ajax as follows:

var parameters = "groups=" + escape([e-mail]);
var url="/mydomain/ajaxCall";

* * * * if (req != null) {

* * * * * * * req.open("POST", url, true);
* * * * * * * req.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded");
* * * * * * * req.send(parameters);
* * * * * * * req.onreadystatechange=processResp2;
* * * * }

I noticed that inside the ajaxCall the plus (+) sign is replaced with
a space in the string escaped (myemail [e-mail])

Could someone tell me how to do this correctly?

'+' is a reserved character; it is one of the 2 possible ways to
percent-encode a space (the other one is '%20'). You should send '%2B'
if you want to send the plus-sign.

See section 2.2.in RFC 3986:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt

In your code:

parameters = parameters.replace(/\+/g,'%2B');

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

Hope this helps,

--
Bart

[souporpower]

On Oct 16, 10:07*am, Bart Van der Donck <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

I am using ajax as follows:

var parameters = "groups=" + escape([e-mail]);
var url="/mydomain/ajaxCall";

* * * * if (req != null) {

* * * * * * * req.open("POST", url, true);
* * * * * * * req.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded");
* * * * * * * req.send(parameters);
* * * * * * * req.onreadystatechange=processResp2;
* * * * }

I noticed that inside the ajaxCall the plus (+) sign is replaced with
a space in the string escaped (myemail [e-mail])

Could someone tell me how to do this correctly?

'+' is a reserved character; it is one of the 2 possible ways to
percent-encode a space (the other one is '%20'). You should send '%2B'
if you want to send the plus-sign.

See section 2.2.in RFC 3986:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt

In your code:

* parameters = parameters.replace(/\+/g,'%2B');

More info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

Hope this helps,

--
*Bart

Thanks for the clarification. I tried replace as suggested above
and also encodeURI. The plus sign still gets dropped.

I don't know what else to try. Your kind help is appreciated.

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

so*********@gmail.com wrote:

Bart Van der Donck wrote:

>[e-mail] wrote:

>>I am using ajax as follows:
var parameters = "groups=" + escape([e-mail]);
var url="/mydomain/ajaxCall";
if (req != null) {
req.open("POST", url, true);
req.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded");
req.send(parameters);
req.onreadystatechange=processResp2;
}
I noticed that inside the ajaxCall the plus (+) sign is replaced with
a space in the string escaped (myemail [e-mail])
Could someone tell me how to do this correctly?

'+' is a reserved character; [...]
In your code:

parameters = parameters.replace(/\+/g,'%2B');
[...]

I tried replace as suggested above and also encodeURI. The plus sign
still gets dropped.

I don't know what else to try. Your kind help is appreciated.

You could post the code that you are using. The code that you have posted
so far does not run because it is syntactically invalid (you did not quote
the argument of escape); who knows what other typos/omissions are there.

Please trim your quotes to the relevant parts.
PointedEars
--
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
&& navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
) // Plone, register_function.js:16

[sasuke]

On Oct 17, 12:20*am, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Thanks for the clarification. I tried replace as suggested above
and also encodeURI. The plus sign still gets dropped.

I don't know what else to try. Your kind help is appreciated.

Use encodeURIComponent() instead of escape() for encoding your POST
data.

/sasuke

[souporpower]

On Oct 16, 10:50*pm, sasuke <[e-mail]:

On Oct 17, 12:20*am, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Thanks for the clarification. I tried replace as suggested above
and also encodeURI. The plus sign still gets dropped.

I don't know what else to try. Your kind help is appreciated.

Use encodeURIComponent() instead of escape() for encoding your POST
data.

/sasuke

thank you; the encodeURIComponent worked like a charm

regards