Unable to read vbLf and vbTab in POST request

Hello All :wave: I'm afraid I'm in desperate need of help. I'm trying to understand why tabs and line feeds aren't coming through a POST request. Here's the code to reproduce:

POST request:

Code:

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str = "accountRequest=<NewUser>" & vbLf & _
"Hello" & vbTab & "World" & vbLf & _
"</NewUser>"


Set objHTTP = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")
objHTTP.open "POST", "service.asp", False
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objHTTP.send str

response.Write(objHTTP.responseText)

Set objHTTP = Nothing

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service.asp:

Code:

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function w (str)
response.Write(str & "<br>")
end function

str = request.Form("accountRequest")

w(str)
w("Tabs: "& InStr(str,vbTab))
w("Lines: "& InStr(str,vbLf))

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output:

Code:

---

HelloWorld
Tabs: 0
Lines: 0

---

Untested, but try specifying the charset as well:

Code:

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objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"

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It didn't work. I also tried specifying the charset in the response as well without luck.

ummm.... because it wasn't htmlencoded/urlencoded properly?

just a guess.

-tg

tg, you're right. In fact, it wasn't url encoded at all. I finally figured out that it doesn't matter if you do a $_POST in php which preserves the tab (\t). ASP's request method doesn't do it.