decode the string server side which is received from the client side

[Vas Miriyala]

Hi all,
I have used escape function in javascript to encode the user entered text and sending
this encoded string to the server side,Now i want to decode this encoded string in Server side to do the persistance operations.
any idea on this how can we do?

[Wendy Gibbons]

look into the java class URLEncoder

[Vas Miriyala]

Hi all
I solved the problem by using java.net.URLDecoder.decode("stringName","UTF-8"); in servlets

[Bear Bibeault]

Why did you encode the string in the first place?

[Wendy Gibbons]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Why did you encode the string in the first place?

isn't it sensible to do that for user entered text, just in case they do something crazy?

[Bear Bibeault]

Wendy Gibbons wrote:

Bear Bibeault wrote:Why did you encode the string in the first place?

isn't it sensible to do that for user entered text, just in case they do something crazy?

Such as?

The text is going to be encoded automatically for delivery to the server, and automatically decoded. Why doubly-encode it, necessitating decoding on the server? It's just an extra step that does absolutely nothing constructive.

[Wendy Gibbons]

Bear Bibeault wrote:

Wendy Gibbons wrote:

Bear Bibeault wrote:Why did you encode the string in the first place?

isn't it sensible to do that for user entered text, just in case they do something crazy?

Such as?

The text is going to be encoded automatically for delivery to the server, and automatically decoded. Why doubly-encode it, necessitating decoding on the server? It's just an extra step that does absolutely nothing constructive.

oh ok