http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/appendix/notes.html#ampersands-in-uris
mentions this. I think the reasoning is that a query string with
a parameter of say "¢" for instance would be translated by
the browser to a ¢ sign, as in a penny. The parameters
are interpreted as well as the document.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Dave Salisbury
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Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [htdig] query string weirdness
> The "; instead of &' intrigued me so I went hunting on W3C to find
> a definitive standard that spelt out the format of the query part
> of a HTTP URI - and failed.
>
> I looked at the HTML 4.01 docs, and an RFC on URI's ( which said
> that ';' was a reserved character in a "query" , but that was it )
>
> Anyone got any tips on where I should *actually* look?
>
> Regs
>
> Brian
>
> At 15:10 30/01/2001 -0500, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> > > But the main problem is the ";" instead of "&" separator.
> > >
> > > There seems to be some url document encoding going on that
> > > I would rather see not there.
> >
> >This is the HTML 4.0 (and later) standard. See the FAQ for more details:
> ><http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#q5.21>
>
>
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