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Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness

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On 5/5/14 8:11 AM, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> This is a long time observation but I wanted to summarize it and give
> heads up to ones which might not have encountered it, yet.
>
> It doesn't appear java.net.URI behaves in undocumented way, but just in
> no useful way.  In my experience the java.net.URI is only suitable for
> parsing certain URI parts, and not for constructing URI instances,
> either using the properties of an existing URI or using values obtained
> else way.
>
> My use case is simple:  Have an input URI which I want to modify certain
> components/properties of, and produce a new URI.  For example, change
> the 'host' or 'path' of an HTTP URL.
>
> The first example behaves pretty much as I expect:
>
> import java.net.URI;
> import java.net.URLEncoder;
>
> public class URITest {
>
>      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>          System.out.println(URLEncoder
>                             .encode("#%&/;=?@", "US-ASCII"));
>
>          URI u = URI.create("http://user%40domain@server1:8080"
>                             + "/path?param=value#fragment");
>          System.out.println(u.toASCIIString());
>
>          URI v = new URI(u.getScheme(),
>                          u.getUserInfo(),
>                          "server2",
>                          u.getPort(),
>                          u.getPath(),
>                          u.getQuery(),
>                          u.getFragment());
>          System.out.println(v.toASCIIString());
>
>          URI w = new URI(u.getScheme(),
>                          u.getRawUserInfo(),
>                          "server3",
>                          u.getPort(),
>                          u.getRawPath(),
>                          u.getRawQuery(),
>                          u.getRawFragment());
>          System.out.println(w.toASCIIString());
>      }
>
> }
>
> It tests the behavior of the URI(scheme, userInfo, host, port, path,
> query, fragment) constructor, and the output is as:
>
> http://user%40domain@server1:8080/path?param=value#fragment
> http://user%40domain@server2:8080/path?param=value#fragment
> http://user%2540domain@server3:8080/path?param=value#fragment
>
> As I would expect the 'userInfo' is encoded properly when given as
> decoded value (and double-encoded if given as a raw, already encoded
> value).  The other properties, in this case, don't make a difference
> because their values are the same in raw and decoded form.
>
> ----
>
> Now, I expect the URI(scheme, authority, path, query, fragment)
> constructor would need a raw 'authority' value as it gets parsed into
> 'userInfo', 'host' and 'port' components/properties:
>
> public class URITest2 {
>
>      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>          URI u = URI.create("http://user%40domain@server1:8080"
>                             + "/path?param=value#fragment");
>          System.out.println(u.toASCIIString());
>
>          URI v = new URI(u.getScheme(),
>                          u.getAuthority(),
>                          "/htap",
>                          u.getQuery(),
>                          u.getFragment());
>          System.out.println(v.toASCIIString());
>
>          URI w = new URI(u.getScheme(),
>                          u.getRawAuthority(),
>                          "/htap",
>                          u.getQuery(),
>                          u.getFragment());
>          System.out.println(w.toASCIIString());
>      }
>
> }
>
> The output:
>
> http://user%40domain@server1:8080/path?param=value#fragment
> http://user@domain@server1:8080/htap?param=value#fragment
> http://user%2540domain@server1:8080/htap?param=value#fragment
>
> shows there's no way to re-construct a correct URI using it.
>
> ... TL;DR

Looks like you need

URI v = new URI(
  u.getScheme(),
  u.getAuthority().someKindOfEncodeFunction(),
  "/htap",
  u.getQuery(),
  u.getFragment());


Mike Amling
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[LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-05 16:11 +0300
  Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-05-05 11:37 -0500
    Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-05-05 11:43 -0500
    Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-05 19:50 +0300
  Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-05-05 11:58 -0700
    Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-05 23:59 +0300
      Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-05-05 16:51 -0700
        Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-06 10:26 +0300
          Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2014-05-06 08:47 +0100
            Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-06 11:02 +0300
          Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-05-06 10:24 -0700
            Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-06 22:24 +0300
            Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-05-06 12:24 -0700
              Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-06 22:34 +0300
                Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-05-06 13:04 -0700
                Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-06 23:07 +0300
              Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2014-05-06 23:04 +0300
            Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2014-05-06 20:29 +0100
              Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-05-06 13:01 -0700

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