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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:55:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Daryn Sharp (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HADOOP-7531) Add servlet util methods for
 handling paths in requests
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Daryn Sharp commented on HADOOP-7531:
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bq. And we wouldn't let someone check that in.. =)

I'm worried because it's a latent land-mine.  Over 20 years I've debugged so many "it'll never happen" bugs that I strongly adhere to Murphy's Law.  Someday the charset will be changed, either in error or with legit purpose, or an external jar will fiddle with the charset, or a deployment env will use an incompatible charset, etc.  When that day arrives, some poor developer will spend too much time debugging why the web page acts goofy instead of immediately seeing an invalid charset exception.

Perhaps the safest way is to not catch the exception and use {{URIUtil.encodeXXX(String, "UTF-8")}}?

> Add servlet util methods for handling paths in requests 
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-7531
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7531
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: util
>    Affects Versions: 0.23.0
>            Reporter: Eli Collins
>            Assignee: Eli Collins
>             Fix For: 0.23.0
>
>         Attachments: hadoop-7531-1.patch, hadoop-7531-2.patch
>
>
> Common side of HDFS-2235.

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