Query_String value being changed -- why?

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I have an web agent which passes the value “&ID=;[ECO-CS]” to a document. But by the time the value gets to the document, it reads “&ID=;%5BECO-CS%5D”

Does anyone know why this is or how to fix it. We just upgraded our server to 6.01 last night, and this is inhibiting access to our website.

Thanks,

Chris

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Subject: Query_String value being changed – why?

“&ID=;%5BECO-CS%5D” has the “[” and “]” converted to hexadecimal. You can verify this by using the Windows calculator to convert 5B and 5D to decimal, 91 and 93 respectively. Then go to a DOS prompt, hold down the ALT key, and enter 091 or 093. There’s the characters you intended. The per cent sign is the indicator of a hex value to follow. When you bring in the query string, parse for the per cent sign, removing it and converting the following two characters via Chr$(), and add the resulting character in place of those two after the per cent sign.

Failing all that, just use Query_String_Decoded! It does it for you. Read the help once before posting here, maybe, especially searching for “Table of CGI variables” in this instance.

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Subject: RE: Query_String value being changed – why?

Thanks, Victor. The main issue was that this encoding of brackets is new with ND6 – in R5, the Query_String CGI variable didn’t encode the brackets.

Actually, when I called the document with the Query_STring parameters (which included the brackets) directly from the addressbar of my browser, the Query_String variable wasn’t encoded. It turns out it was encoded by Domino (new to this release) before calling the document from the agent (which was called with a simple “Print” statement of the url).

Thanks again for the reply. I ended up just parsing out the hexadecimal. Your solution of using a different variable (Query_String_Decoded) is much better!

Chris

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Subject: RE: Query_String value being changed – why?

You’re welcome. I’ll email you a NSF with a form I find useful. It displays a table of all the CGI variables, in the context of the server it’s running on. Call it:

and you’ll see how yours behaves.

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Subject: RE: Query_String value being changed – why?

Thanks for the file, Victor!