We're doing some things in our WPS 5.1 portal where we have to pass data to our theme & skin via query parameters. Some of this data is XML, but we're URL-encoding it. So, if we want to send the XML:



...the URL ends up like this:

http://localhost:9080/wps/myportal?value=%3Cfoo%2F%3E

In the Default.jsp of the theme, we use request.getParameter():

String value = request.getParameter("value");

But the value ends up being XML-encoded or HTML-encoded:

<foo/>

This is really causing us hardship. As far as we can tell, this SHOULDN'T be happening, but maybe we're not understanding the API/spec correctly.

Any ideas?