Patches item #456052, was opened at 2001-08-28 00:56 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=303152&aid=456052&group_id=3152
Category: aolserver3_3 Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jerry Asher (jerryasher) >Assigned to: Kriston Rehberg (kriston) Summary: support html4 b.2.2, semicolons in uris Initial Comment: Patch to support HTML4.0 specification Appendix B.2.2, regarding special characters in URL attribute values, specifically using a semicolon, ';', in a URI instead of an ampersand, '&'. With this patch, AOLserver will take a URI that uses semicolons and not ampersands and correctly parse the URI into form variables and their values. <quote> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h- B.2.2 B.2.2 Ampersands in URI attribute values The URI that is constructed when a form is submitted may be used as an anchor-style link (e.g., the href attribute for the A element). Unfortunately, the use of the "&" character to separate form fields interacts with its use in SGML attribute values to delimit character entity references. For example, to use the URI "http://host/?x=1&y=2"; as a linking URI, it must be written <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2";> or <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2";>. We recommend that HTTP server implementors, and in particular, CGI implementors support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors the trouble of escaping "&" characters in this manner. </quote> This patch adds a config.tcl parameter ns_section ns/server/yourserver ns_param semicolonqueryseparator yes The default value is no, or not examining URI's for semicolons. nsd/nsconf.c - read ns_param semicolonseparator for ns_querytoset nsd/nsconf.h - define CONN_SEMICOLON_SEP_BOOL for ns_querytoset nsd/nsd.h - added semicolonseparator to struct conn in struct _nsconf for ns_querytoset nsd/conn.c - NS_QueryToSet - modified to examine semicolons inside of a request ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=303152&aid=456052&group_id=3152
