Yeah I'll agree with Dave, >From my experience you need to escape those ampersands, especially in the more >strict document types or else they will not pass validation, they will not >however cause issues when you come to interpret the values, you can still grab >them as URL.id and URL.cat.
Rob -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 April 2007 10:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Who is wrong ? > URLs should contain unescaped ampersands. This URL: > > .../index.cfm?id=3&cat=dusty > > defines two params, one named 'id, and one named 'amp;cat', > with values you can surmise. Actually, I think that's incorrect: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_12 "n both SGML and XML, the ampersand character ("&") declares the beginning of an entity reference (e.g., ® for the registered trademark symbol "(r)"). Unfortunately, many HTML user agents have silently ignored incorrect usage of the ampersand character in HTML documents - treating ampersands that do not look like entity references as literal ampersands. XML-based user agents will not tolerate this incorrect usage, and any document that uses an ampersand incorrectly will not be "valid", and consequently will not conform to this specification. In order to ensure that documents are compatible with historical HTML user agents and XML-based user agents, ampersands used in a document that are to be treated as literal characters must be expressed themselves as an entity reference (e.g. "&"). For example, when the href attribute of the a element refers to a CGI script that takes parameters, it must be expressed as http://my.site.dom/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?class=guest&name=user rather than as http://my.site.dom/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?class=guest&name=user."; Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
