Re: HTML entities in URLs and urlencoding

[Milian Wolff]

Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 schrieb Waylan Limberg:
> We recently received the following bug report for the python-markdown
>
> implementation:
> > The "&" are escaped in URLs.
> >
> > An example:
> >     [Link](http://www.site.com/?param1=value1&param2=value1)
> >
> > Should output:
> >     <a href="http://www.site.com/?param1=value1&param2=value1";>Link</a>

No it shouldn't. This is invalid (x)HTML.

> > Currently outputs:
> >     <a
> > href="http://www.site.com/?param1=value1&amp;param2=value1";>Link</a>

Which is valid (x)HTML!

> > So the "&" must not be escaped!

It must! See also <http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp>



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Milian Wolff
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