On Wed, 26 May 1999, Pete Tedder wrote:
> I'm using 2.3.3 and question mark "?" is processed OK but the ampersand
> "&" is being treated as a terminator. I don't know if ampersand is a
> legal URL character but it would certainly be useful if it was
> acceptable in MHonArc.
>
> Thus this is treated correctly:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/19136.html?wnpg=all
>
> but this is not:
>
>
>http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=jive&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftbtf.com%2Ffaq.html
Ampersand is legal in a URL, but it is a control character in HTML. If it
is legal depends on its position:
<a href="http://dom.se/test?a=1&b=2">http://dom.se/test?a=1&b=2</a>
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Legal, part of URL | |
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Here the ampersamd should be encoded as "&"
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