Hi Jan -

This should be fixed in the latest version. All requests can now 
optionally take encoded URL strings. Give it a shot and let me know if 
it works for you.

Hope this helps,
   - Andreas

On 8/9/2010 7:32 AM, Jan van de Sandt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am busy updating the CloudforkAWS code to use WebClient as a the HTTP
> client. CloudforkAWS provides a Smalltalk API to the Amazon AWS REST
> services.
>
> WebClient works really well, the not so common HTTP methods like HEAD,
> DELETE and PUT that the Simple Storage Service (S3) require work without
> any problems :-)
>
> There is only one small problem. The WebClient>>httpGet:do: method
> always encodes the urlString. In my situation the url is already encoded
> and encoding it a second time leads to errors. In my code I encode the
> individual query parameters names and values before I compose the
> complete url. If you have a parameters like this I think it is the only
> correct way:
>
> param1=you&me
> param2=coming for dinner?
>
> So I added the following methods to WebClient:
>
> httpGet: urlString encoded: isEncoded do: aBlock
> "GET the response from the given url"
> | request |
> self initializeFromUrl: urlString.
> request := self requestWithUrl: urlString encoded: isEncoded.
> request method: 'GET'.
> userAgent ifNotNil:[request headerAt: 'User-Agent' put: userAgent].
> aBlock value: request.
> ^self sendRequest: request
>
> and:
>
> requestWithUrl: urlString encoded: isEncoded
> "Create an return a new WebRequest initialized with the given url.
> Subclasses can use this method to override the default request class."
>
> ^WebRequest new initializeFromUrl: urlString encoded: isEncoded.
>
> It would be great if these methods are incorporated in the base package.
>
> Jan.
>
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