cfml

cfhttpparam doesn't offer a way to turn off encoding for form fields.
&gt; <https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-2250>

We have confirmed the lucee is in fact encoding our ! in one of our fields being passed to Paypal and thus breaking the integration. The ACF version was functional.

```orne!&amp;ttxtype=```
 is being encoded w/ our http implementation as show below?
```orne%21&amp;ttxtype=```
Encode attribute on the httpparam does not seam to resolve the issue nor the chartype on the request.

Any suggestions?

&gt; Java 11
&gt; Tomcat 9.0.79
&gt; Lucee 5.4.3.16

The fastest way to resolve this issue is to either just use native Java to do you call or look at a CFML library like BoltHTTP:

<https://github.com/foundeo/bolthttp>

These should give you more control over your HTTP operations. I've been using BoltHTTP in most of our HTTP calls.

Closing the loop :point_right: refactoring the existing cf code resolved the issue

&gt; • refactoring the HTTP request to remove the use of the deprecated 'new http()' constructor
&gt; • refactoring the HTTP request to pass the name-value pairs as a string in the body of the POST rather than as separate formfields
&gt; • encoding the value of the PWD field
&gt; • adding the 'multipart' parameter to the cfhttp call, tried both 'true' and 'false'
&gt; • adding the 'encoded' parameter to the cfhttpparam for the PWD field (this should only affect fields of type 'cgi' and 'url'), tried both true and false
