Someone on this list must know enough about http to help with the following. The problem basically has to do with encoding of urls, in particular '+' -> '%2B'.
I'll use an example to show the problem. If you visit http://packages.debian.org/g++ you are supposed to be redirected to http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=g%2B%2B&searchon=names&version=all&release=all but no matter whether you specify g++ or g%2B%2B in the initial url, the final url contains g++. Then when the variable keywords is read into the cgi script it contains the value 'g '. If you go directly to http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=g%2B%2B&searchon=names&version=all&release=all everything works properly. Is the problem here that the redirect should use the encoded url, or that the cgi script should receive the '+' when the variable is read in? The script is in perl using the CGI module. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
