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Subject: null/empty value in request string
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hi
i have a post request like this:

param1=value1&param2=&param3=value3

if i put these into a ArrayList<NameValuePair> for a POST, should the value
of param2 an empty-string or should it be null ? does defaultHttpClient
handle these 2 cases differently ?

thanx

cheers

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