[gdal-dev] WFS driver does not do URL-encoding right

Rahkonen Jukka Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
Thu Aug 16 04:17:11 PDT 2012


Even Rouault wrote:
 
> Note: yesterday after your emails, I've revised substantially how escaping
> was done in the WFS driver, because there were cases where URL-escaping
> would have been needed (for example if you passed '&' or '%'), so now for
> 'ä', you should see 25-43-33-25-41-34 (but that won't solve anything for
> Windows command line).
> There was also missing XML-escaping in some cases (yes, you need to XML-
> escape stuff, and then URL-escape it...).

I have heard that things are getting quite a bit harder to handle with WPS
when you may need to include the WFS request with its filters inside the
WPS request and escape everything correctly... Should things be escaped 
once, twice or not at all...

-Jukka-


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