Control of Encoding in HTTP body

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I have discovered that the http library is UTF-8 encoding body data, which can cause problems with certain devices.

For example, if I send this body string in an http request:

{"device_id": "5357fc44-40ec-402b-8ef9-0303a88f7ab4", "action": "hold" }

What actually gets transmitted is this:

00000094  7b e2 80 9c 64 65 76 69  63 65 5f 69 64 e2 80 9d   {...devi ce_id...
000000A4  3a 20 e2 80 9c 35 33 35  37 66 63 34 34 2d 34 30   : ...535 7fc44-40
000000B4  65 63 2d 34 30 32 62 2d  38 65 66 39 2d 30 33 30   ec-402b- 8ef9-030
000000C4  33 61 38 38 66 37 61 62  34 e2 80 9d 2c 20 e2 80   3a88f7ab 4..., ..
000000D4  9c 61 63 74 69 6f 6e e2  80 9d 3a 20 e2 80 9c 68   .action. ..: ...h
000000E4  6f 6c 64 e2 80 9d 20 7d                            old... }

As can be seen above, the double quote characters are being converted to UTF-8 left and right quotes (e2 80 9c / e2 80 9d).

Is there a way to control this encoding? I expected this type of thing to happen with the URI string, but not the body data…

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I wouldn’t expect ‘smart quotes’ to happen anywhere in a driver. That’s not encoding data, it is changing it to something else.

Is it definitely happening at the driver level? I seem to remember that preferences were a right battle against unwanted encoding by the app.

3

Very true!

4

I’ll just repeat this comment here.

Is it definitely happening at the driver level? I seem to remember that preferences were a right battle against unwanted encoding by the app.

5

I don’t know where the data is getting converted. I took a quick scan through the http library and all I could find was the encoding done to the URI. Couldn’t see anywhere it was encoding body data, but I may have missed it.