encodeURI problem

[andym2009]

I ran into difficulties with line 119 in MediaServerClient:
didl = decodeURI(didl);

It through a "malformed uri" exception. It was an exceptionally long response (over 96,000 characters) so I don't know where the problem was.

I tried decodeURIComponent and that also failed with the same result.

The only thing that worked was using unescape, which I know is deprecated, so not sure what the elegant solution should be.

[matt1]

Are you able to paste the long response into a github gist so I can try it? (assuming it has nothing sensitive in it)

[andym2009]

I had shifted my attention to php and dlna, but if I can dig out what I was doing with crdlna I will try and provide it.

But, I think actually I think you have hit an area they have not yet really nailed in the standards. From what I can see of the dialogue around this topic, people are saying the decodeURI method is doing too much validation because it is focused on URI rather than simply decoding characters.

There is no control over what is likely to appear in the string, so I am guessing you'd end up reproducing what unescape used to do.

[matt1]

Ok - thanks for that. I'll leave this issue open for now until I either reproduce it with some test data or someone else stumbles on the same thing.

[andym2009]

I temporarily added my email address to my public profile - I have the info, but it is largish so probably better if you email me and I'll send it via email :-)