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olst 69 posts 88 karma points

Nov 05, 2011 @ 21:01

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

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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

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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

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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/name@gmail.com - didnt work
/base/Services/AddSubscriber/name@gmail.com/newsletter worked

Thansk,
Ashwinth

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Kjetil Barnung 3 posts 28 karma points

Nov 11, 2011 @ 17:12

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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

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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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problematic chars for parameters of umbraco base

url: '/Base/Ajax/GetSignup/' + firstName + '/' + lastName + '/' + email + '/' + password,

The resource cannot be found

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