[Qt-interest] Problem using URL with special characters

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 29 de August de 2011 09:08:52 kent williams wrote:
> some things in your reply (thanks BTW) confuse me.
> 
> 1. #define QT_NO_URL_CAST_FROM_STRING is a compile-time flag. Are you
> suggesting that I recompile Qt with that flag, or does it somehow
> affect the behavior in my code?

Recompile your code with that flag. You'll catch misuses of the QUrl 
constructor.

> 2. 'Never  call the QUrl constructor. By definition I can't use QUrl
> without calling a constructor. Are you saying to do this?
> 
> QUrl url;
> url.setUrl( urlString );

The QUrl::setUrl method has the same problem. Don't ever use it.

> 3. 'use QUrl::formEncoded' -- I'm not sure what to do with this.

    QUrl::fromEncoded("http://example.com");

> That's an option of QUrl::toEncoded, which returns a QByteArray, but
> that isn't much use. QNetworkRequest::setUrl takes a QUrl, a
> QByteArray isn't of any use to me.
> 
> The whole reason that the equals sign is encoded in the URL as %3D is
> that the resulting string is meant to be passed into SQL, and
> therefore shouldn't be interpreted by the web server as an = sign.

See above.

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