On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
> Then again, all the browsers build CGI strings by separateing the
> variables with an '&' and the "HTML people" (RFC 1833, I think) stand by
> their recommendation that this should be something different like ';'.
>
No, 1833 is "Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2" :) You mean RFC 1866,
which is HTML 2.0. It says that they are encoded with '&' (Section 8.2.1).
It does say that in order to put them safely into URLs, ';' should also be
supported. However, HTML 4.0 seems to drop this second part.
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