1) Yes, I know server-side image maps are 1996. But they're still
part of the HTML spec , and not deprecated
====
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.6.2
The location clicked is passed to the server as follows. The user
agent derives a new URI from the URI specified by the href attribute
of the A element, by appending `?' followed by the x and y
coordinates, separated by a comma. The link is then followed using
the new URI. For instance, in the given example, if the user clicks
at the location x=10, y=27 then the derived URI is "http://
www.acme.com/cgi-bin/competition?10,27".
User agents that do not offer the user a means to select specific
coordinates (e.g., non-graphical user agents that rely on keyboard
input, speech-based user agents, etc.) should send the coordinates
"0,0" to the server when the link is activated.
====
2) The issue:
lets say we have this url :
http://www.acme.com/cgi-bin/competition
it gets rewritten as:
http://www.acme.com/cgi-bin/competition?10,27
but, if we have this url:
http://www.acme.com/cgi-bin/competition?token=a
it gets rewritten as:
http://www.acme.com/cgi-bin/competition?token=a?10,27
which then kills the parser --
print $apr->param('token')
a?10,27
i think the spirit of the spec was to have
http://www.acme.com/cgi-bin/competition?10,27&token=a
but the language and implementations give
http://www.acme.com/cgi-bin/competition?token=a?10,27
which will break just about every param knon to man.
i know this isn't a 'bug' -- its because the HTTP rfc and HTML spec
have this glaring discrepancy.
that said, i think it would be nice if libapreq would remove
\?(\d*),(\d*)$
from uris before parsing...
and perhaps make that info available by another function ? (i strip
it out with regex off an unparsed URI already , so that would just be
icing on the cake )
// Jonathan Vanasco
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