What I am doing is Ciphering a url parameter, so &m=(ciphered text here), and java's ciphering returns a byte[] to you, so I needed to convert it from byte[] to a string that I could set as a url parameter, then reverse everything when I get that url back.
-David > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:17 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: How to encode byte array as url parameter > > David > Any reason why you're not constructing java.net.URL from string? and then > using toExternalForm() to convert back to String? > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/ > ??? > Martin- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <user@struts.apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:54 PM > Subject: RE: How to encode byte array as url parameter > > > >I took a look at that commons encoder and for encoding a byte[] it > returns > >a > > byte[].. seems pointless to me? > > -David > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:41 PM > >> To: Struts Users Mailing List > >> Subject: Re: How to encode byte array as url parameter > >> > >> David Erickson wrote: > >> > >> >Hi I am wondering how I can take a byte[] and use it as a URL > parameter? > >> I > >> >have tried converting it to a string using varying character sets, but > >> when > >> >I call string.getbytes I never get back my original array. Any help > >> would > >> >be greatly appreciated. > >> > > >> > > >> Googled "url encode byte" to get: > >> > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/apidocs/org/apache/commons/codec/n > >> et/URLCodec.html > >> > >> which pointed me to if you don't want to use the above: > >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1 (how to > >> encode bytes in a URL) > >> > >> Dave > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
