| Subject: | Impossible to send an actual unescaped backslash in HTTP form value |
I'm using LWP::UserAgent to send requests to a custom server-side
service. LWP::UserAgent uses HTTP::Request internally, which uses
HTTP::Request::Common to process requests. HTTP::Request::Common has a
line of code that makes sending plain '\n' in requests just not possible:
$k =~ s/([\\\"])/\\$1/g; # escape quotes and backslashes
I want to be able to send "\n" in a form value, but I can't because of
the above line. This means that even if I have a parameter "paths" with
"/img/blah.png\n/img/blah2.png", HTTP::Request::Common happily converts
the '\n' to '\\n', changing "paths" to be "/img/blah.png\\n/img/blah2.png".
I think I should be able to send "\n" in a form value.
I can write a small test script if it's needed...
My information:
* libwww-perl 5.813-1
* perl v5.10.0
* Debian Lenny 5.0.3
* Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem