Re: & in url [WAS: file generator error]

[Joerg Heinicke]

But that's in the HTML code I guess, not in the URL textarea. And there this behaviour is more or less correct. It tries to read &quoteId, something *must* be wrong here. Now the browser can choose between & or ". But what's the user's wanted? IE chooses ". Maybe the guys at MS don't even know explicit this choosing, because it's really a special case. The error is the not-escaping of & in the href attribute or whereever (HTML code), so it has nothing to do with the syntax of the URL itself.

Regards,

Joerg

Todd Pierce wrote:

(I don't know about W3C, but) Yes, it can. I have been forced to use &
in the past where IE was resolving GET parameters to escape characters, even
though the semi colon was missing. In my case I had a parameter called
quoteId, so the request ...?abc=123&quoteId=456 became ...?abc=123"eId=456

Changing the request to ...?abc=123&quoteId=456 fixed it just fine.

WIll anecdotal evidence do?



-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 January 2003 11:27 AM
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Subject: & in url [WAS: file generator error]


I would regard the behavior below to be incorrect - so the million dollar question is what is the correct behavior:
Can GET parameters be separated by & instead of & according to the W3C, etc?

Don't have time to look it up myself - does anyone know for sure?

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:14 PM
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Subject: Re: file generator error

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If I type http://127.0.0.1:8080/cocoon/joerg/test?test=test&test2=test2 I get (IMO also) expected

<requestParameters>
<parameter name="amp;test2">
<value>test2</value>
</parameter>
<parameter name="test">
<value>test</value>
</parameter>
</requestParameters>

because & as delimiter for the parameters (not &amp;), so amp; must be the beginning of the next parameter name.

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