My apologies if this has been sent twice. Near as I can tell, the first
time I accidentally mailed it direct to Giles and not to the entire list as
I intended.
At 04:40 PM 6/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
>According to Jerry Asher:
> > What standard suggests that URL variables should be separated with
> anything
> > other than an ampersand?
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
>
> > May I ask why htsearch is using semicolons to separate the config, page,
> > and words url variables?
>
>http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.21
>
> > Is there anyway to make yet another config option to htsearch to specify
> > the url variable separator used in making the next page links?
>
>There's always a way if you're willing to code it yourself. It is open
>source after all. None of the developers see this as a problem that's
>worth spending a lot of their time on, as the workarounds are available,
>easy, and better than backing out the changes to htsearch to make it go
>back to the old, non-standard approach.
Thank you. Interesting. I found the entry in the FAQ that points to the
HTML 4 spec which sure enough "suggests" that webservers support semicolons
and that applications use semicolons and not ampersands.
I certainly don't want to get into an argument, but it appears from RFC
1866 section 8.1.2 that the ampersands are the standard and that semicolons
are a nonstandard "encouragement" and this is backed up by the example POST
submission shown in 8.2.4 (http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/html/rfc1866.txt)
So I would still think that using ampersands is the standard, but since I
am probably wrong, can you tell me why you believe that using ampersands is
in fact non-standard and that semicolons are the standard (and as a founder
of the opennsd webserver project, I would like to be able to convince my
fellow opennsd developers that we should be supporting semicolons and
deprecating ampersands/)
Since you note that it is open source, is it reasonable for me to think
that if I submit a good quality patch that supports ampersands as well as
semicolons, it will be applied to the source?
Thank you,
Jerry Asher
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