On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Richard Seymour wrote:
> Previous software I have used would create something like:
>
> http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?jsessionid=xYzXyzxYzXyzxYzXyz
>
> with a question mark instead of a semicolon.
>
> All the links with semicolons in them work *except htdig*.
You mean "htsearch," right?
> Am I right in assuming that using a semicolon to separate the filename
> from the query string in a URL is an emerging but legitimate way to form
> a URL? And the htsearch doesn't support it out of the box?
I have never seen software that tries to do that--AFAIK, it's a violation
of the CGI standard. The emerging standard is that components of a query
string should be separated by a ; instead of an & because HTML treats the
& as a special character.
I don't think there's much about htsearch that "doesn't support" it. If I
had to guess, the server isn't passing the bit on as a QUERY_STRING
environment variable. I'd have to run one of the normal "environment" test
CGIs like printenv on the server.
As to "the other URLs," are these all parsed through the servlet, or do
you have other CGIs?
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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