Our ruby on rails site has a URI that one of our partners POSTs XML data to.

Since we don't want to deal with XML, we literally just stuff the raw data into a database column and don't go any further with processing it.

However, one of the posts we received gave us this error in airbrake:

ArgumentError: invalid %-encoding ("http://ns.hr-xml.org/2004-08-02" 
userId="" password=""><BackgroundReportPackage type="report">
<ProviderReferenceId>....

With backtrace:

vendor/ruby-1.9.3/lib/ruby/1.9.1/uri/common.rb:898:in `decode_www_form_component'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/utils.rb:41:in `unescape'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/utils.rb:94:in `block (2 levels) in parse_nested_query'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/utils.rb:94:in `map'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/utils.rb:94:in `block in parse_nested_query'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/utils.rb:93:in `each'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/utils.rb:93:in `parse_nested_query'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/request.rb:332:in `parse_query'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/request.rb:209:in `POST'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:26:in `method_override'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:14:in `call'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/runtime.rb:17:in `call'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-3.2.13/lib/active_support/cache/strategy/local_cache.rb:72:in `call'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/lock.rb:15:in `call'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.13/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb:63:in `call'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-cache-1.2/lib/rack/cache/context.rb:136:in `forward'
vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/rack-cache-1.2/lib/rack/cache/context.rb:143:in `pass'
v
ruby-on-rails-3 rack ruby-1.9.3
Edit
Report