Re: RFC 288 (v2) First-Class CGI Support

[Alan Gutierrez]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Robert Mathews wrote:

> Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> > HTML::Embperl stuffs form input into a hash just as proposed here. For
> > multiple values it creates a tab-delimited string. This will not present
> > the above trouble with commas, since when the user, for some odd reason,
> > enters "Ann Arbor\tMI", in most browsers the input focus will jump to
> > the next input on tab, and the tab does not get entered into a field.
> 
> Netscape on Solaris has this tabbing behavior for text fields, but
> allows you to enter tabs in text areas.  I guess your solution would be
> workable, though.

Pity about Solaris. I wonder if Gerard Richter, HTML::Embperl mainter,
has ideas about this?


Another problem, regardless of array refs or tab-delim. A hash %CGI does
not address keyword parameters:

http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/search?bar+baz

Does this give us an array @CGI?

Alan Gutierrez