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Encoding special characters in an EAI header

  • 1.  Encoding special characters in an EAI header

    Posted Thu October 22, 2020 02:24 PM
    Hello,

    There is an IBM document 545179 about the need to encode special characters in an EAI header:
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    All white space and non-ASCII bytes need to be encoded %XY, where X and Y are hex values (0–F).
    Encoding applies also to the following entries:
    • ASCII characters below 0x1F and above 0x7F
    • Escape characters for tab, carriage return, and line feed
    • Percent symbol
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    We faced this problem when using InfoMap (ISAM 9 AAC). Is there an easy way to encode a string without writing your own code to parse for all the specified characters?

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    Anatoly Nazarenko
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  • 2.  RE: Encoding special characters in an EAI header

    Posted Fri October 23, 2020 06:54 AM
    Hello Anatoly,

    I'm not 100% sure but this sounds like a URL encoding.

    Have a look at the encodeURL method in the com.tivoli.am.rba.extensions.PluginUtils package:

    • encodeURL

      public static java.lang.String encodeURL(java.lang.String str)
      Returns a encoded URL.
      Parameters:
      str - is the string value to URL encode
      Returns:
      URL encoded string
      Since:
      8.0.0.3
    Jon.

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    Jon Harry
    Consulting IT Security Specialist
    IBM
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