Re: [Dillo-dev]Entity parsing in links

[Eric G. <eg...@in...>]

-- En reponse de "Re: [Dillo-dev]Entity parsing in links" de Livio
Baldini Soares, le 23-Dec-2000 :
> 
> Sam Dennis writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:07:40AM -0200, Livio Baldini Soares
>> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> > 
>> >   And that's exactly what Dillo sends, but Netscape, p.e, parses
>> > `&amp;' into a `&'. So what is the correct action to perform? Is
>> > Dillo
>> > wrong or is Sourceforge wrong?
>> > 
> 
>> We're wrong, according to the specifications, character entities are
>> allowed
>> in attributes, and therefore '&amp;' *must* be used in place of just
>> '&'.
>> 
>> It's not just links, it's all string attributes.
>> 
> 

That's not true at all : urls don't have entities parsing mecanism. The
only parsing for urls is escaping with % HEX HEX. '&' is a reserved
character for separating 'name=value' blocks in an url.
Unfortunatly, a few sites use entities in their urls, and some browsers
(nestcape at least) allow this (but netscape's entities parsing is
admitedly broken).
This issue have already been discussed a few weeks ago in the list,
please read the archives for more details

>   Thanks for looking this up Sam!
> 
>   I've put in the bug in the bug-track, it's bug #114. I've already
> assigned it to me ;^) I'll get to it after Christmas probably.
> 
>   PS: Jorge, how you doing with 0.3.1 version? Will it come out
> before
> Christmas? Hope so!
> 
>   best regards to all,
> 
> --  
>   Livio <li...@li...>
> 
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Eric GAUDET <eg...@in...>
Le 23-Dec-2000 a 10:36:02
"Le verbe inexister ... inexiste !"
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