On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Trond Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:55:33PM -0600, Richard Greenwood wrote: >> The proxy.cgi python script is truncating everything after the >> ampersand "&". Specifically, my url: >> http://www.greenwoodmap.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=http://records.sublettewyo.com/mapserver/listJSON.php?ts=greenwood&key=value >> And the access_log at records.sublettewyo.com shows: >> 50.16.240.30 - - [16/Apr/2011:16:47:29 -0600] "GET >> /mapserver/listJSON.php?ts=greenwood HTTP/1.1" 200 16118 >> >> Notice that the '&' and everything following it is missing in the access_log. >> I've tried substituting & & \& '&' "&" without luck? >> What am I missing? > > & is how you escape ampersands in HTML, when you want to escape it > in URLs, you must use %hex notation. i.e. %26. So, the URL should be: > > http://www.greenwoodmap.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=http://records.sublettewyo.com/mapserver/listJSON.php?ts=greenwood%26key=value > > I would actually also escape the "?" and "=" just to be on the safe side > > http://www.greenwoodmap.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=http://records.sublettewyo.com/mapserver/listJSON.php%3Fts%3Dgreenwood%26key%3Dvalue > > Of course, you could also just use the javascript function escape(). > > var proxy = "http://www.greenwoodmap.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi";; > var target = > "http://records.sublettewyo.com/mapserver/listJSON.php?ts=greenwood&key=value";; > var full_url = proxy + "?url=" + escape(target); > > -- > Trond Michelsen >
Trond, Thank you very much for your very prompt and very detailed answer. Best regards, Rich -- Richard Greenwood [email protected] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
