HTTP requests and character '^'.

[em2zeraw]

Hi,

Does anyone know the curse behind the character '^'?

For some strange reason http request:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=MSFT+SUNW&f=sl1&e=.txt

works fine and http request:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=^DJI+^SPX&f=sl1&e=.txt

fails to connect when running on the actual phone.

These requests work without any problems in emulators and browsers.

And it works when '^' is encoded (replaced by '%5E').

Your help is much appreciated.

[shmoove]

And it works when '^' is encoded (replaced by '%5E').

So encode it.

shmoove

[em2zeraw]

I do encode it.

But the point was: it works in the emulator and doesn't in the phone. Shouldn't it be consistent? Is there any reason other than 'bug' for it?

[shmoove]

'bug' sounds just right.
My main point was, with the amount of fragmentation and bugs there is in J2ME implementations, it's useless to bang your head against the wall just so you can do what you think should be done. Encoding the character works, and it will work on all the other platforms too, right? So just encode it and move on. I'm sure you'll have enough troubles up ahead, like we all do.

Happy coding,

shmoove

[em2zeraw]

Thanks for the reply.

Happy coding around bugs,

Em2Zeraw.