Re: [Zope] sending variables/parameters via hyperlink
Dieter Maurer wrote: This should work *IF* the URL does not contain funny characters. Note that many characters are not allowed in URL's and especially "value" above must not contain blanks (as per HTML 4.x and CGI). Such values must be quoted with "url_quote_plus". Why is it so bad if values contain spaces? This is the same area as why variables supplied without a value, eg: http://server/method?paramater ...don't end up in the namespace, eg, from the above example: REQUEST['paramater']=None cheers, Chris ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] sending variables/parameters via hyperlink
Chris Withers writes: Dieter Maurer wrote: This should work *IF* the URL does not contain funny characters. Note that many characters are not allowed in URL's and especially "value" above must not contain blanks (as per HTML 4.x and CGI). Such values must be quoted with "url_quote_plus". Why is it so bad if values contain spaces? I think, it was because in early days most CGI scripts were shell scripts. It is quite hard to pass values into shell scripts that contain blanks. Unix shells are very keen to reparse them and break them up at whitespace into a sequence of words. Anyway, when you look at the current HTTP (4.01) specification, you can read that space has to be replaced by '+'. To be precise, this is a requirement for the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" content type. This is the same area as why variables supplied without a value, eg: http://server/method?paramater don't end up in the namespace, eg, from the above example: When I looked at "ZPublisher.cgi", I had the impression that it treats such constructs as "values" rather than "names" and associate all of them with 'None'. If I am right, then ZPublisher does not expose such items. I did not check the CGI spec to learn what is the correct behaviour. Dieter ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] sending variables/parameters via hyperlink
hello people, i am extremely new to zope. from the time i have sent this email i would have been 4 hours old as a zope newbie. i would just like to congratulate the people responsible for zope. like i said before, it is a content managers dream come true. anyway, i seem to have a thing i cannot do. we can pass variables/parameters via post in a webform. however, i would like to pass as variable/parameter via a hyperlink. in regular html i would be something like a href="newpage.htm?variablename=value"Sent value to newpage.htm/a i get this error: error start-o Error response Error code 400. Message: Bad Request. ---error endo is this expected behavior? if so what should i do so emulate something like this method of paramter/variable passing using anchors? thanks. -- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://cersa.admu.edu.ph/ phone : 63(2)4266001-5925/5904 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
