Re: [OT] & in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

[Michael Hanisch]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Dave Jenkins wrote:

> > > Then you are wrong. :) You need to have & in there, so that the
> > > browser can turn it back from & to & before sending the URL back
> > > up to your server (or whichever server comes along).
> > 
> > Are you really positive about this?
> 
> <unlurk>
> 
> I had a problem with certain URLs on IE4 a while back: given a link like...
> <A HREF="/cgi-bin/arse.cgi?action=hoot&section_id=3">
> ... it was turning the '&sect' bit into a section symbol, causing the link not
> to work!
> 
>  </unlurk>

Yuck.
Anybody else with similar problems?

I really believe my thoughts outlined in my original post are correct -
but right now I am starting to worry...
Personally I would attribute the described problem to a bug in IE4 - even
if it parses the URI for entities, it shouldn't find a "&sect;" since the
trailing semi-colon is missing. (Aargh, feeling like a smart-ass again ;-)

To be honest, I have always used plain ampersands in URLs embedded in my
pages, and thus far I have never encountered any problems.
But maybe I've just been lucky... ;-)

So if there's anyone out there how can explain this, I'd be glad to
learn.
 
CU,
        Michael
(waiting &amp; wondering)