Re: [OT] & in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

[John Siracusa]

On 7/28/00 12:54 PM, Mark Doyle wrote:
> We deliberately chose to use URL's with a series of '/' delimited fields
> rather then using '? ... &....'  style URL's precisely because most people
> don't know they have to escape the ampersands and we didn't want to risk
> people's links breaking in the future because of some new entity in the HTML
> spec.

Another alternative (and one I use sometimes) is to do:

    .../blah?foo=1;goo=hoo;etc=andsoon

which CGI.pm conveniently understands and parses, and is
valid in HREFs, AFAIK.

-John