Re: [Openinteract-dev] Using '&' as parameter separator

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>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Winters <ch...@cw...> writes:

Chris> damien leri wrote:
>> another plugin function i have an issue with is make_url(), which
>> joins params with '&', rather than '&amp;'. Why not avoid both by
>> using
Chris> ';' as the param delimiter?

Chris> This is one of those issues that I was too lazy to research and went
Chris> with what worked. Do GET parsing engines regard a lone '&' as an
Chris> error? Do '&amp;' and ';' work with everything?

[Hmm.  I have to repeat this on every mailing list I'm on, it seems.]

A URI with CGI info generally looks like:

        http://some.host/cgi/scriptname?fred=flintstone&barney=rubble

However, 99% of the time, you'll be putting that into an HTML page,
where it has to be coded like:

<FORM ACTION="http://some.host/cgi/scriptname?fred=flintstone&amp;barney=rubble">

because "&" has to become "&amp;" even in attributes.

There are a *few* CGI processors that have adopted the "; is the same as &"
recommendation, but at this point, you still shouldn't count on it.

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