arguments being switched around and disappearing?

[Ito2233]

In my code I have a drop-down menu that redirects and sets a cookie. The value of one of the options selected is the following:

<option value="<isa:webappsURL name=&quot;/b2b/init.do&quot;/>?shopId=COMPANY&<%= request.getQueryString() %>">United States</option>

Redirection works when clicking GO! But when I'm setting the cookie, something strange happens. First, this is what the above chosen value looks like when passed to the server:

/b2b-playground/b2b/init.do;jsessionid=ID4001DB0.9722336212
620123End;sap2ee_*=4001?shopId=COMPANY&null

Some data is added to the above string, using Javascript, to make a cookie string:

var expiration = new Date("December 1, 2004");
expiration = expiration.toGMTString();
test = "name=" + menuvalue + ";expires=" + expiration;

The value of variable TEST ends up looking like this:

name=/b2b-playground/b2b/init.do;jsessionid=ID4001DB0.9722336212
620123End;sap2ee_*=4001?shopId=COMPANY&null;expires=Wed, 1 Dec 2004 05:00:00 UTC

Now HERE IS THE CURIOUS PART...when variable TEST gets assigned to document.cookie using Javascript, the value of document.cookie ends up being:

name=/b2b-playground/b2b/init.do;sap2ee_*=4001; JSESSIONID=ID4001DB0.9520725885913588End

So my question is Where did the "?shopID=COMPANY&null" part go, and why did the order of the arguments change? When redirection is attempted after reading this cookie, it fails, and I suspect it's because the full cookie string is not being assigned to document.cookie. I parse everything correctly and assign the string to window.location, but redirection fails. Can someone tell me why the string is being cut off?
Thanks

 

[byam]

I believe the problem is the "?" character in URL value. i

i.e.

name=/b2b-playground/b2b/init.do;jsessionid=ID4001DB0.9722336212
620123End;sap2ee_*=4001?shopId=COMPANY...

which breaks the cookie string. Try encode the URL before putting it in the cookie.

 

[Ito2233]

Hmmmm...sounds like a good suggestion, but I'm confused. At which point should I be ESCAPING and UNESCAPING the string?
Should I escape it before storing it in document.cookie, as below?

document.cookie = escape(test);

Then at which point do I unescape it? When I assign the
window.location the URL string, should it be encoded?

Also, how would I go about encoding the question mark?
Thanks

 

[sedj]

Use the java.net.URLEncoder & java.net.URLDecoder classes ...

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