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

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

Andrew Hurst wrote:
> Wouldn't this only matter if you supported more than one CGI processor?  
> If I recall correctly, Scoop used Apache::Request, and it supported ';' 
> as an argument delimiter.  Also, if the cgi processor you used didn't 
> support it, couldn't you just get the whole URI and process it 
> yourself?  It's just 3 splits, on ?, on /, and on ;.
> 
> So, am I missing a piece of the puzzle here?  Or am I on the right track?

Most of the time, yes. But you could be generating URLs for other 
sites, or other applications in the same site. Those may use an 
entirely different technology -- I was dismayed to learn that 
Tomcat, the reference Java Servlet container, doesn't recognize 
';' as a query argument separator.

Plus, down the path of manually parsing URIs lies madness :-)

Chris

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