[ale] Data encoding in a web page

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 19 October 2003 06:45, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> It seems that URLEncoding that value gets me part of what
> netscape is sending.  But netscape is sending much more data.
>

Why don't you post a copy of what netscape is sending, and what you THINK it 
should be sending?

> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:24:55AM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > Certain strings need to be encoded when being sent as part of a URL:
> >
> > special characters (including plus signs and percents) get converted to
> > %xx where xx is the hex value of the character).
> > spaces get convert to plus signs.
> >
> > Not sure if this happens on POST requests, but you could try it that way,
> > or you could just use java.net.URLEncoder.encode()
> >
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/URLEncoder.html
> >
> > On Sunday 19 October 2003 06:01, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > I'm trying to send data that looks like this
> > >
> > > "dDwyMTQxMjc4NDIxO3Q8O2w8aTwxPjs%2BO2w8dDw7bDxpPDA%2BOz47bDx0PDtsPGk8MT
> > >47Pj ts"
> > >
> > > But when I sniff the connection it gets sent like this:
> > > "dDwyMTQxMjc4NDIxO3Q8O2w8aTwxPjs%252BO2w8dDw7bDxpPDA%252BOz47bDx0PDtsPG
> > >k8MT 47Pjts"
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm doing this in Java so my HTTPClient is converting the data.  My
> > > main issue is that the tag in the form looks like this:
> > >
> > > <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE"
> > > value="dDwyMTQxMjc4NDIxO3Q8O2w8aTwxPjs+O2w8dDw7bDxpPDA+Oz47bDx0PDtsPGk8
> > >MT47
> > > PjtsPHQ8O2w8aTwxPjs+O2w8dDw7bDxpPDE+Oz47bDx0PDtsPGk8Mj47aTwzPjtpPDk+O2k
> > >8MTI+
> > > Oz47bDx0PDtsPGk8MT47PjtsPHQ8O2w8aTwwPjs+O2w8dDx0PDs7bDxpPDA+Oz4+Ozs+Oz4
> > >+Oz4+
> > > O3Q8O2w8aTwxPjs+O2w8dDw7bDxpPDA+Oz47bDx0PHQ8OztsPGk8MD47Pj47Oz47Pj47Pj4
> > >7dDw7
> > > bDxpPDE+Oz47bDx0PDtsPGk8MD47PjtsPHQ8dDw7O2w8aTwwPjs+Pjs7Pjs+Pjs+Pjt0PDt
> > >sPGk8
> > > MT47PjtsPHQ8O2w8aTwwPjs+O2w8dDx0PDs7bDxpPDA+Oz4+Ozs+Oz4+Oz4+Oz4+Oz4+Oz4
> > >+Oz4+ Oz4+Oz4+Oz5ZeStnfajPMQ9tQDyvFfTUkgUDJg==" />
> > >
> > >
> > > It is not very long.  But when I submit the web page using netscape the
> > > data value sent in __VIEWSTATE is much bigger.  What is netscape doing
> > > to that string?
> > >
> > > The page I'm trying to automate in Java is at:
> > > https://secure.sos.state.ga.us/myverification/
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris Fowler
> > >
> > >
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