Re: NSPropertyListSerialization and string encoding
Re: NSPropertyListSerialization and string encoding
- Subject: Re: NSPropertyListSerialization and string encoding
- From: Joe Turner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:10:50 -0500
Hey,
Thanks! It seems that all I had to do sanitize was encode &'s <'s >'s "'s and ''s, and then just do my normal percent encoding, and everything is now working great!
Thanks!
Joe
On Jul 23, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Joe Turner <email@hidden> wrote:
>> However, now it seems my issue is with &'s in the data itself from the property list. If the plist contained an "&" somewhere, everything after that point is cut off (which makes sense). Is there any way around this? It seems I have to percent escape the data before posting, which (the only way I know how to do), has to be done with NSStrings.
>
> The process you are referring to is called x-www-form-urlencoding,
> which is a combination of replacing spaces with + signs and
> percent-escaping. You should do this as you're building your POST
> data. All of this needs to be done in the character set you're
> submitting the POST in, which is ISO-8859-1 by default, unless you
> explicitly override it with a charset in the Content-Type header.
>
> If I were working on this problem, I would imagine an API which I
> could hand a dictionary of string->string pairs and get back a
> properly form-encoded NSData object. I would enumerate each key-value
> pair, converting its key and value to the appropriate character set
> (ISO-8859-1) and then performing sanitization. Once I've completed
> that, I would glue them all together with the appropriate & and =
> characters.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
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