The following comment has been added to this issue:
Author: Rene Gielen
Created: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 4:47 PM
Body:
>From w3c definition of html 4.01:
B.2.2 Ampersands in URI attribute values
The URI that is constructed when a form is submitted may be used as an anchor-style
link (e.g., the href attribute for the A element). Unfortunately, the use of the "&"
character to separate form fields interacts with its use in SGML attribute values to
delimit character entity references. For example, to use the URI
"http://host/?x=1&y=2"; as a linking URI, it must be written <A
href="http://host/?x=1&y=2";> or <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2";>.
We recommend that HTTP server implementors, and in particular, CGI implementors
support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors the trouble of escaping "&"
characters in this manner.
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2)
Hmmm... So the recommendation is ; - not & and not &
Looking at such familiar places like google, we are always confronted with the good
old & ... quite confusing.
But, again, Problem with & stays - our setup with tomcat 4.1.24 and Mozilla 1.3 /
1.4 messes up. Will try the ; syntax and give a report, but I suppose it might be
safer to use & than & - not by definition, but by empiricism...
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Key: WW-265
Summary: UrlHelper.java uses & entity instead of & to add GET parameters
Type: Bug
Status: Assigned
Priority: Critical
Project: WebWork
Components:
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Versions:
2.0-beta1
Assignee: Patrick Lightbody
Reporter: Rene Gielen
Created: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:50 PM
Updated: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:51 PM
Description:
When having more than one GET parameter appended to a url, the UrlHelper Util uses
UTF-8 entity to seperate parameters. This is wrong...
Attached small diff against java.net CVS HEAD
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