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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