Title: RE: & in url [WAS: file generator error]

I don't know if this will help but here's a link to a w3c appendix dealing with this issue
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2

It suggests that the & *must* be escaped as & or &

This article http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/formgetbyurl.html has an extended discussion.

Regards,

Shane McNeil
Analyst Programmer
Corporate Document Technologies
STANDARDS AUSTRALIA


> (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?
>

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