Re: Semicolons in request parameter in Rails 2.3

Matt Jones
2009-08-14T18:39:16Z

This may be more of a question for a Rack list, as that''s
what''s doing
the parsing. However, I''d note that the only two incoming encodings
that the parameter parser supports are application/x-www-form-
urlencoded (which requires escaped semicolons) and multipart/form-
data. You might have more luck getting ahold of the unparsed POST body
from Rack::Request and handling it yourself.

--Matt Jones

On Aug 13, 5:45 pm, "Florian j. Breunig"
<rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
s.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after upgrading Rails from 2.2.2 to 2.3.3 I realized that the handling
> of request parameters has been changed regarding semicolons (that might
> be due to the now integrated Rack interface). The following request
>
> curlhttp://127.0.0.1:3000/polls/initiate-d ''hallo=1;2''
>
> used to result in
>
> Parameters: {"hallo"=>"1;2"}
>
> in Rails 2.2.2. However, in Rails 2.3.3, the result is this:
>
> Parameters: {"hallo"=>"1", "2"=>nil}
>
> My application receives ICS (i.e. iCal) plain text containing semicolons
> wrapped inside a POST request, so in my case a semicolon is *not* meant
> to separate different parameters. How can I restore the previous
> behaviour in Rails 2.3?
>
> Thank you
> Flow
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