My only idea to get around this would be to configure a list of parameter names in the template system where spaces can safely be reconverted to +-characters.
Well, you're free to encode your data anyway you want (as long as the resulting URL is valid), but if you're not using "CGI encoding", you shouldn't have CGI::Util::unescape decode it. You should do one of these:
    1. Encode your data in BASE64.
    2. CGI-encode the BASE64 data.
    3. Send the data over the wire.
    4. CGI-decode the data.
    5. BASE64 decode the data.
    1. Encode your data in BASE64.
    2. Send the data over the wire.
    3. BASE64 decode the data.
    1. CGI-encode the BASE64 data.
    2. Send the data over the wire.
    3. CGI-decode the data.
  4. Something else.
But you shouldn't not-CGI-encode the data on one end, and CGI-decode it on the other.

In reply to Re: CGI-class changes + to space for BASE64-data by JavaFan
in thread CGI-class changes + to space for BASE64-data by Pickwick

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