Re: Escaping semicolons (actually Ampersands)

2004-07-02 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phil Endecott wrote: Tony The stuff between the quotes following HREF is not HTML; it Tony is a URL. Hence, it must follow URL rules not HTML rules. No, it's both a URL and HTML. It must follow both rules. Please see the page that I cited in my

RE: Escaping semicolons

2004-06-30 Thread Nicoson Dave
-Original Message- From: Phil Endecott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Escaping semicolons [SNIP] This makes me wonder how Internet Explorer copes. I don't have a Windows machine here, so I wonder if someone

Re: Escaping semicolons

2004-06-30 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil This makes me wonder how Internet Explorer copes. Dave IE 6 opens the other file. Mozilla 1.7 says the file cannot be found. Thanks Dave! I have submitted a Mozilla bug report: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249239 I'll let you know if they think it's a wget bug. --Phil.

RE: Escaping semicolons (actually Ampersands)

2004-06-29 Thread Post, Mark K
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:17 PM To: Phil Endecott; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Escaping semicolons (actually Ampersands) Phil Endecott wrote: Tony The stuff between the quotes following HREF is not HTML; it is a Tony URL. Hence, it must follow URL rules

Re: Escaping semicolons (actually Ampersands)

2004-06-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Tony The stuff between the quotes following HREF is not HTML; it Tony is a URL. Hence, it must follow URL rules not HTML rules. No, it's both a URL and HTML. It must follow both rules. Please see the page that I cited in my previous message:

Re: Escaping semicolons (actually Ampersands)

2004-06-28 Thread Tony Lewis
Phil Endecott wrote: Tony The stuff between the quotes following HREF is not HTML; it Tony is a URL. Hence, it must follow URL rules not HTML rules. No, it's both a URL and HTML. It must follow both rules. Please see the page that I cited in my previous message:

Re: Escaping semicolons

2004-06-27 Thread Tony Lewis
Phil Endecott wrote: There is not much to go on in terms of specifications. The closest is RFC1738, which includes BNF for a file: URI. However it is ten years old, so whether it reflects current practice I do not know. But it does not allow ; in file: URIs. I conclude from this that

Re: Escaping semicolons

2004-06-27 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, There are now two threads here so I'm splitting it into two messages. Phil I conclude from this that wget should be replacing ; with Phil its %3b escape sequence. Tony I think you're confusing what wget is required to do with Tony URLs entered on the command line and what it chooses

Re: Escaping semicolons (actually Ampersands)

2004-06-27 Thread Phil Endecott
(2) There are now two threads going on here so I'm splitting it into two messages. Phil Tony, are you suggesting that this is legal HTML? Phil a href=http://foo.foo/foo.cgi?p1=v1p2=v2;Foo/a Phil I'm fairly confident that you need to escape the to make it Phil valid, i.e. Phil a

Re: Escaping semicolons

2004-06-26 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear wgetters, A few days ago I asked about whether wget should escape semicolons in filenames that it downloads. I didn't get many replies, so I have done some research and have concluded that it probably should be escaping them. There is not much to go on in terms of specifications. The

Escaping semicolons

2004-06-24 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Wget experts, I am using wget to build a downloadable zip file for offline viewing of a CGI-intensive web site that I am building. Essentially it works, but I am encountering difficulties with semicolons. I use semicolons in CGI URIs to separate parameters. (Ampersand is more often used

RE: Escaping semicolons

2004-06-24 Thread Nicoson Dave
-Original Message- From: Phil Endecott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Escaping semicolons [SNIP] First question: is ; an acceptable character in Windows filenames? ( I don't have a Windows machine to try

Re: Escaping semicolons

2004-06-24 Thread Tony Lewis
Phil Endecott wrote: I am using wget to build a downloadable zip file for offline viewing of a CGI-intensive web site that I am building. Essentially it works, but I am encountering difficulties with semicolons. I use semicolons in CGI URIs to separate parameters. (Ampersand is more often