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[renojim]

I guess you'd have to ask Yahoo. The caret is part of a query.

-JT

[kbenson]

"renojim" wrote:
I guess you'd have to ask Yahoo. The caret is part of a query.

Yahoo may require a caret in the parameter name, but they almost definitely accept it URI encoded (it's generally the web server's responsibility to unescape, not the web-app). ^ is %5E escaped, if you want to test manually.

Make sure to encode only the parameter names and values in the string, not the full URL to post to, since it will see :, /, and = as values that need to be escaped. E.g.

$ perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape("http://example.com?^foo=bar")."\n";'
http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3F%5Efoo%3Dbar

What you really want is something like:

$ perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print "http://example.com?".uri_escape("^foo")."=".uri_escape("bar")."\n";'
http://example.com?%5Efoo=bar

Needless to say, escaping the entire URL, or even just the full param string, will lead to problems.

[renojim]

The first thing I tried was to replace the caret, and only the caret, with %5E. It didn't work. The parameter, which is one of several, was just ignored.

-JT

[kbenson]

That's odd. There doesn't happen to be a test URL with a known response provided by yahoo, does there? That would make testing for the rest of us easier without revealing anything specific to your account there, if that mattes.