The details are actually in the HTML spec in the form submission section <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13> (along with a link to a recommendation of allowing ';' in query strings that you should be warned very few implement.)
As others have posted, one should generally avoid parsing the query string manually. -ccwf -- Charles C. Fu ,-- Founder ___ __ __. . ,-/-- Web i18n, LLC (_,(_,|/|/ / www.web-i18n.net ----' -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
