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Subject: Re: [LONG] java.net.URI encoding weirdness
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On 5/6/2014 12:29 PM, Steven Simpson wrote:
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> The name of the first parameter is "param=1", and its value is "value&1".
>
> The name of the second parameter is "param?2", with the value "value$2

Yes, mistake on my part.  I made a quick test that appeared to work, so 
I posted it.  Mea culpa.

> % java URITest4
> http://server1/path?param%3D1=value%261&param%3F2=value%232#fragment
>      Query: param=1=value&1&param?2=value#2
> Raw query: param%3D1=value%261&param%3F2=value%232
>
> This shows that getQuery() is not useful, as it decodes too soon. The

Yup, see my post about 5 minutes just before yours.  Clearly that's the 
problem, the query can't possibly be parsed as a single long string. 
It's a bug.