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  • olst 69 posts 88 karma points
    Nov 05, 2011 @ 21:01
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    problematic chars for parameters of umbraco base

    Hi.

    I've set up a sign up form.

    now, I want to post the values using ajax, so I'm using base, and passing the form fields as parameters.

    The problem is that base does not accept special chars like '#' or '.' or '+', and this breaks the operation.

    does anybody have a workaround ?

     

    my jquery ajax code:

    $('#btnSignup').click(function () {

                var firstName = $("#SignupFirstName").val();
                var lastName = $("#SignupLastName").val();
                var email = $("#SignupEmail").val();
                var password = $("#SignupPassword").val();


                $.ajax({

                        url: '/Base/Ajax/GetSignup/' + firstName + '/' + lastName + '/' + email + '/' + password,
                        beforeSend: function () {
                        $('#signup-error').hide();
                        $('#loading').show();
                    },
                    success: function (data, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
                        $('#loading').hide();

                        var result = jQuery.parseJSON(data);

                        $('#signup-error').fadeOut("slow").hide().fadeIn();
                        $('#message-text').text(result.Message);
                    },
                    error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                        alert(errorThrown);
                    }
                });
                return false;
            });
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  • Stephan Lonntorp 195 posts 212 karma points
    Nov 05, 2011 @ 21:12
    Stephan Lonntorp
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    Have you tried encoding your parameters before you send them? encodeURIComponent could be useful here.

     

     

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  • olst 69 posts 88 karma points
    Nov 05, 2011 @ 22:10
    olst
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    Hi stephan, and thanks for the reply.

    I tried what you suggested, but still no go.

    Here is the jquery code:

    var firstName = $("#SignupFirstName").val();

                    var lastName = $("#SignupLastName").val();

                    var email = $("#SignupEmail").val();

                    var password = $("#SignupPassword").val();

     

                    var url = '/Base/Ajax/GetSignup/' + encodeURIComponent(firstName) + '/'

                        + encodeURIComponent(lastName) + '/' + 

                        encodeURIComponent(email) + '/' +

                        encodeURIComponent(password);

     

    and in the c# code I use this to get the original string:

    System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlDecode(firstName) ...

     

    Now, when I try to run the base method directly in the browser by typing the new url into the address, it gives an error, because I think there is some url decoding made behind the scenes in umbraco (???)

    What can I do to solve this ?

    The resource cannot be found

    Requested URL: /Base/Ajax/GetSignup/abc /abc/def/abc

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  • olst 69 posts 88 karma points
    Nov 06, 2011 @ 14:05
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    So, does anybody have a solution ?

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  • olst 69 posts 88 karma points
    Nov 06, 2011 @ 17:07
    olst
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    How is it possible to send the base function parameters without using the url for that, something like:

    var firstName = $("#SignupFirstName").val(),
        lastName     = $("#SignupLastName").val(),
        email     = $("#SignupEmail").val(),
        password     = $("#SignupPassword").val();

    $    .ajax({
        url    :'/Ajax/GetSignup/',
        type    :'POST',
        data    :{
            firstName    : firstName,
            lastName    : lastName,
            email    : email,
            password    : password
            },
        success    :function(result){
                // TODO: process the results from the AJAX call
            }
    });

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  • ashwinth 1 post 21 karma points
    Nov 10, 2011 @ 16:42
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    Not sure if this helps, but i had a similar problem passing an email to base. I kept getting a 404 error when the email parameter was the last in the list of parameters; so my last parameter couldnt contain special characters (most probably the . in the email).

    /base/Services/AddSubscriber/[email protected] - didnt work
    /base/Services/AddSubscriber/[email protected]/newsletter worked

    Thansk,
    Ashwinth

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  • Kjetil Barnung 3 posts 28 karma points
    Nov 11, 2011 @ 17:12
    Kjetil Barnung
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    on IIS 7.5 i find /base to break when any of the parameters you pass contains a dot

    . 

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  • olst 69 posts 88 karma points
    Nov 11, 2011 @ 19:58
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    Yes, you are both right, you cannot pass an full email address to base as a parameter, so what I did was was not pass the parameters to the base function, but rather in my base function use the request object instead and convert it to json, like so:

     

    string post = HttpContext.Current.Request.Form[0];
    SignupInput si = (SignupInput)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(post, typeof(MyType));
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  • Henri Toivonen 77 posts 111 karma points
    Dec 12, 2011 @ 15:11
    Henri Toivonen
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    Ugh, this is such a small issue but still i manage to bash my head bloody every time i run into this problem.

    It would be great if /base got some bugfixes really soon.

    Does anyone have any good ideas? Just manually replace in both ends to some kind of special char?

    Getting the request.form is not a good solution in my case since this is in a GET.

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