that is exactly the sort of thing 'vet-word avoids.
it is obviously a work in progress and of all the unsatisfaftory
side effects I think the least unsatisfaftory is yet to be found.
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> * Hallvard Ystad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040209 13:31]:
> It looks like Hallvard's problem is being addressed, but I want to
> note that I modified decode-cgi so that a block of string pairs
> is returned rather than a block of alternating to-set-word types
> and strings.
>
> Reason for it:
> A rebol cgi program might be processing a form in which field
> names have imbedded spaces. This isn't a practice of mine,
> and I avoid it on any of our projects, but the eventuality
> would yield unpredicatable results:
>
> example:
> >> res: context decode-cgi "field one=1&fieldtwo=2"
> >> probe res
>
> make object! [
> field one: "1"
> fieldtwo: "2"
> ]
> >> res/fieldtwo
> == "2"
> >>res/field one
> ** Script Error: Invalid path value: field
> ** Near: res/field one
>
> tim
>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I know some people say "garbage in - garbage out", but one can't always control
> > what comes into one's programs as input. Here's what came to one of mine:
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?state=threads&board=cult.tamaraswift&&sort=T
> >
> > This crashes 'decode-cgi in /core 2.5.6:
> > >> decode-cgi "state=threads&board=cult.tamaraswift&&sort=T"
> > ** Script Error: Out of range or past end
> > ** Where: to-set-word
> > ** Near: to set-word! :value
> > >>
> >
> > I believe Andreas Bolka and/or Andrew Martin made a patch to 'decode-cgi some time
> > back, but can't seem to find it. Does anyone know whether the patch fixes this
> > problem? Or perhaps where I can find it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > HY
> >
> > Prętera censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
> >
> >
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