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in reply to Re: CGI-class changes + to space for BASE64-data
in thread CGI-class changes + to space for BASE64-data

Yes, URL-encode the data if it's going to somewhat that expects it to be URL-encoded. CGI::Util has an 'escape' function that should DTRT.

The data is already sent using encodeRedirectURL from a Java servlet and + is a proper character.