David,
Good question.
If a new version of HTTP specifies the use of ';' rather than '&', the
servlet engine could detect the HTTP version and decode appropriately.
Personally I'm not holding my breath. So many existing programs, CGI and
otherwise, depend on ampersand-separated arguments, it would be the web
equivalent of Y2K.
Specific to the servlet world, the HttpUtils.parseXXX methods would need
to take an additional argument.
Cheers,
Wes
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, David Wall wrote:
> Everything I read related to HTML 4.0 is that the & to separate parameters (based on
>the older CGI convention) has been deprecated. The W3C suggests using ; instead. Does
>anybody know if the servlet APIs (2.1 is the one I'm looking over) will ever support
>the ability to set the separator rather than hard-coding the & character?
>
> David
>
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