Peter Rundle was once rumoured to have said:
> Using Mozilla 0.7,
>
> When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets
> submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.'
> Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can
> change in the browser an option or setting or something? Or is this a bug?
No. This is valid behaviour - its peforming a URI encoding.
Just NS4.x doesn't URI encode '.', but Mozilla 0.7 does.
Your CGI handlers should decode these automatically.
[%xx is just ascii character code xx (in hex)]
C.
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