Posting a form with jQuery to servlet : Losing newlines?

Hi all,

There is a little problem that i do not fully understand...

In the beginning, i used to work on the standard post method with html...using no script...everything went well...Jsp-post -> servlet -> done

Now, when i try to post that same form to a servlet, using jQuery post method, everything goes fin...except that i lose my newlines.

i work with the jQuery serialize() function.

$('form#dataform').serialize()

All textarea's that contain newlines, are converted to the following :

textarea1=line1%0Aline2&textarea2=line1%0Aline2

why not %0D%0A?...i don't know, but i accept it...

BUT, when the data is posted, in the servlet i receive (using req.getParameter(textarea1)...)

textarea1 = line1line2
textarea2 = line1line2

why is the %0A not comming in?

So, in the end, all newlines are gone...

I googled but didn't find an answer that was clear enough...and solutions are not that good...
they are talking about replacing the "%0A" etc etc...

anybody?

thanks in advance!!

nobody else ever got this problem? or maybe my question is not clear enough?

How have you determined that the line feeds are gone?

first at the client, i used a script "alert" , where i saw that the linefeeds (0D0A) were converted to only %0A...i even think that this could be browser dependend...
using the jquery .serialize() function.

but, when i read them out in the servlet (like i said, using req.getParameter...), even the %0A is gone!

How im sure? i display them in hex format...no doubt that they are gone! only the hexadecimal representation of the text is shown.
I can assume that this is a common problem, because google is full of it...but no good solution.
But, just because it is a common problem...there must be a standard work around for it...a solution...something...

or am i doing something terrible wrong, i don't know!
i am not "script" specialist, because i want to use it as less as possible, cause of browser dependencies...

for the moment, i "solved" the problem in script by replacing all "%0A" by "--BRAKE--" and in the backend, replacing "--BRAKE--" by "\r\n"
it works, but i don't want to use a crappy solution like this!

If you want, tommorow i can post the code i use, client, server, etc...

Post an SSCCE showing the issue rather than a lot of code that might not be relevant to the problem.

shame on me, shame on me...

I made a simple project like you suggested, just using the basics, and it worked!!

Original problem is, that i use a customized framework, and it takes care of everything. Deep inside the code i found out that all the 10's were replaced by ''.

So everything is ok now...
Actually, the problem raised because jQuery transforms the 0D0A to only 0A...
And a normal html post sends 0D0A...

thanks for the reply!