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Subject: Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 11:58:29 -0700
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On 5/5/2014 6:11 AM, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> I think all this mess is caused by the URI constructors blindly encoding
> special URI characters in given 'path', 'query' etc. without considering
> the context, and you probably shouldn't be using the java.net.URI
> constructors for any serious work.

*cough* java.net.UrlDecoder.