[Mono-dev] UrlEncode difference in dotnet and mono

[Andrew Skiba]

Hi Gonzalo,

I found that UrlEncode behaves differently in dotnet and Mono, namely
Mono encodes the asterisk (*) symbol into %2a.

The following code prints different values, for example:

	public static void Main ()
	{
		Console.Out.WriteLine
(System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode("aaa*bbb"));
	}

A naive fix might be like this, but may be there are similar problems
with other characters. What do you think?

Index: HttpUtility.cs
===================================================================
--- HttpUtility.cs	(revision 54691)
+++ HttpUtility.cs	(working copy)
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@
 			int end = offset + count;
 			for (int i = offset; i < end; i++) {
 				char c = (char) bytes [i];
-				if ((c == ' ') || (c < '0' && c != '-'
&& c != '.') ||
+				if ((c == ' ') || (c < '0' && c != '-'
&& c != '.' && c != '*') ||
 				    (c < 'A' && c > '9') ||
 				    (c > 'Z' && c < 'a' && c != '_') ||
 				    (c > 'z')) {