[Interest] Preventing QUrl from encoding query parameters

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday 02 August 2014 13:26:15 Lorne Sturtevant wrote:
> On 08/02/2014 11:27 AM, Dmitriy Purgin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If you pass this raw QString or QByteArray somewhere, why use QUrl
> > 
> > then? Anyway, try QUrl::fromPercentEncoding():
> >     QUrl url("http://example.com?query=[{\"name\":\"value\"}]");
> >     qDebug() << QUrl::fromPercentEncoding(url.toEncoded());
> >     // produces: "http://example.com?query=[{"name":"value"}]"
> 
> I should clarify that I need the QUrl because I need to pass it to a
> QNetworkRequest.  That class only takes QUrls.  I can't pass a string.
> 
> QUrl::fromPercentEncoding() produces a QString.  That's not what I need.

You can't do what you want. QUrl will normalise what it has to.

So just make sure that you are running Qt 5.3, since there were bugs in 
previous versions. If that doesn't work, fix your server.

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center