Postman is unescaping my query params

[hamid-elaosta]

1. Postman Version: 4.9.1
2. App (Chrome app or Mac app): Linux app
3. OS details: Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 x64
4. Is the Interceptor on and enabled in the app: No
5. Did you encounter this recently, or has this bug always been there: Recent/Never tested before
6. Expected behaviour: Don't unescape manually encoded query params
7. Console logs (http://blog.getpostman.com/2014/01/27/enabling-chrome-developer-tools-inside-postman/ for the Chrome App, View->Toggle Dev Tools for the Mac app): Nothing shown
8. Screenshots (if applicable)

if I make a query to my API as follows:

/?number=%2b18005552222

I expect Postman to send as-is. However, Wireshark shows that postman has decoded the %2b to +.
This is a problem because + in a query string is special character for space " ", and is then decoded incorrectly on the server.

If I perform the same in Chrome, It is sent as-is. Proven again using Wireshark that the query is sent as-is (still encoded).

[benjamw]

I'm having a similar issue. Mine is regarding following redirects. My redirects have URL encoded chars like %2b and %40 which are incorrectly getting converted. So it seems that Postman is converting those at a low level.

[benjamw]

Possible duplicate of #2529

[albertogiunta]

Having identical issue here!!

[Nirvaner]

Windows 10, postman not chrome plugin - as windows application, I'm having a similar issue

[sdnts]

Guys, we are looking into this, I'll let you all know when a fix is out. Thanks for letting us know.

[mooglemoogle]

Some more info: I'm running Windows 7 and v4.9.2 of the standalone app. When I first attempted to diagnose this issue, I used Fiddler to intercept the requests. Fiddler works by adding a system proxy. When the request went against that proxy, the issue disappeared and the URL was encoded properly.

[tobeliketree]

Any updates on this? I logged #2517 and no movement on that either. this has been really disruptive to my workflows. Can someone update?

[SamvelRaja]

@hamid-elaosta @benjamw @albertogiunta @Nirvaner @mooglemoogle @tobeliketree
The issue has been fixed in our latest canary(4.9.4-canary.1) release,
can you guys switch to that version an check the same?
On additional note we are using the whatwg's url parser algorithm.

[benjamw]

How do I update to canary if I'm using the standalone app?

[hamid-elaosta]

@SamvelRaja thanks for the update, there's not much I can do with the osx binary you linked though, I run Linux.

[sdnts]

Guys, here are links for the Canary builds:

OSX: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/osx_64
Windows 32-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/windows_32
Windows 64-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/windows_64
Linux 32-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/linux_32
Linux 64-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/linux_64

@benjamw You'll need to download the Canary build for your platform. When you sign in, all your collections would be synced in (if you use Sync).

[gmanenti]

Hi, with this the bug it seems resolved. Thank you, Gianluca. 2017-01-25 10:16 GMT+01:00 Siddhant Sinha <notifications@github.com>:

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Guys, here are links for the Canary builds: OSX: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/osx_64 Windows 32-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/windows_32 Windows 64-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/windows_64 Linux 32-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/linux_32 Linux 64-bit: https://dl.pstmn.io/download/channel/canary/linux_32 — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2538 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AVSXvgJNHBZxshYMoN1xBr110t15ozA9ks5rVxLjgaJpZM4LI9ZM> .

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[hamid-elaosta]

@madebysid Thanks, didn't get a chance to test today but will do as soon as poss.

[hamid-elaosta]

@madebysid Downloading Linux 64-bit now.

FYI, you link to the 32bit for both 32/64 Linux versions, it had me tearing my hair out for a while until I realised I was trying to run the 32bit version and I don't have the 32bit libs.

[SamvelRaja]

@hamid-elaosta Thanks for your response. Updated the link aswell. Can you confirm it is fixed 😄

[hamid-elaosta]

@SamvelRaja Apologies for the delay, just finally had the chance to test and I can confirm it's fixed in the canary build you linked.

[SamvelRaja]

Closing this, as the fix is rolled out in the 4.10.2 version of the app 😄

[kishoretangudu]

• is transforming as space " " in the request URL. is it solved? I am using postman 5.5.4 version. Please tell me. Anticipating quick reply.