According to Brian White:
> 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>
The standard reference for this problem is:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
See also the whole thread that began in April 1999 on this subject, and
led, many many months later to the eventual change in htsearch's createURL()
method:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00342.html
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