External command output: spaces replaced by "+" signs

[Pablo A. Destefanis]

Any idea if it is possible to escape/alter the way in which the external command alters the contents of ${message_content} ?

Thank you,

Pablo

[Alex Anderson]

Hi Pablo,

External command url-encodes the ${message_content} variable (using http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLEncoder.ht... with UTF-8).

Most scripting languages will have a built-in or easily accessible url-decode function which will reverse this for you.

Hope this helps,

Alex

[Pablo A. Destefanis]

Hi Alex,

I've just seen your reply.

Do you know if there is any way to change the way in which spaces are encoded? I'm trying to use the + sign to indicate an operation (as entered by the user), and when the enconder kicks in I may end up with ...++... and not knowing if it is one space and a + sign, or two spaces!

Thanks a lot for your reply, and for any pointers you may have.

Cheers,

Pablo

[Pablo A. Destefanis]

Probably the easiest thing to do will be to tweak FrontlineUtils.java and change the + signs that I wish to keep into something else before calling URLDecoder.decode()

I see that URLDecoder.decode() is also called in SMSGatewayProxy.java but I'm only using GPRS modems at the time.

Pablo

[Alex Anderson]

Hi Pablo,

URL-encoding a plus sign should change it into the character sequence "%2b", so you should still be able to distinguish it from spaces.

E.g.
+<space>+

becomes

%2B+%2B

Is this different to what you're seeing?

Alex