thanks and sorry for posting in the incorrect area

On Jul 24, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Adam Prime wrote:

> Mark Robinson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> my mod_perl 2 handler receives form data. I fetch it using the read_post() 
>> function provided in the API docs. it works well but if the form posts data 
>> with tags and such, the fetched data has html control codes instead.
>> for example, if I post the tag "<HTML>", read_post() returns  "%3Chtml%3E" 
>> is there anything built into mod_perl 2 to convert this back into the 
>> original characters?
> 
> Questions like this should to go the users mailing list 
> modp...@perl.apache.org.  dev@ is for discussion of the on going development 
> of mod_perl.
> 
> That said, many people use libapreq2 to handle all incoming post (and get) 
> data which will automatically unescape everything nicely for you.
> 
> To answer your actual question though, you could use 
> Apache2::URI::unescape_url by the looks of things:
> 
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/URI.html#C_unescape_url_
> 
> Adam
> 
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