Re: [ jEdit-users ] URL problems on jEdit site

[Keith G. <ke...@ka...>]

using an ampersand is part of the http protocol as a parameter 
separator.  its not specific to php, all server-side processing engines 
use it.

Pete Prodoehl wrote:

>
> Ok... so from further testing, this pans out to be true.
>
> I can use this in my html:
>
>     http://jedit.org/index.php?page=screenshot&image=10
>
> and it works fine when I view the page in my browser and click on the 
> link, since the browser does the right thing.
>
> With many other sites/apps I can paste a url with &'s into the 
> location field and it works fine. In fact this might be the first site 
> it didn't work on... (Just tested with ht://Dig, works as I expected...)
>
> Is the ; as a parameter separator a PHP thing?
>
> It still seems weird to me, but then again, many things do ;)
>
>
> Pete
>
> mike dillon wrote:
>
>> begin Pete Prodoehl quotation:
>>
>>> but it doesn't validate because of the & so I need to use:
>>>
>>>    http://jedit.org/index.php?page=screenshot&image=10
>>>
>>> which seems to work on every other server in the world... except 
>>> jedit.org
>>>
>>> Something seems not right... Is PHP at fault?
>>
>>
>>
>> The browser needs to unencode any entities in the URL before
>> transmission. If that doesn't happen, the server can't property parse
>> the URL (since "&" looks exactly like adding a valueless param named
>> "amp" because both "&" and ";" are URL parameter separators).
>>
>> -md
>>
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