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steve_111974
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Jul 24, 2008

rewrite a character with HTTP POST data

Hi,     Our application is having a problem recognizing the "&" within a POST sent by the client.     How do I write an irule which parses the POST data that contains the "&" sig...
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hoolio
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Jul 25, 2008
Actually, I would guess your app expects the & to be URL encoded if it shouldn't be interpreted as an &. I think you could replace the stream expression line in the example above, with:

 

 

STREAM::expression {@&@%26@}

 

 

I don't think you'd need to do any rewriting on responses if the application is standards compliant.

 

 

Aaron