#20418 [NEW]: transient SID sends a wrong ampersand(&)

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From:             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      4.3.0-pre2
PHP Bug Type:     Session related
Bug description:  transient SID sends a wrong ampersand(&)

Dear PHP group,

    I found a problem with transient SID.  When I use transient SID with a
link like this:

<a href="test.php?no=23&amp;lang=en">Test Link</a>

    It sends this to the client:

<a
href="test.php?no=23&amp;lang=en&PHPSESSID=ef70c06edde2294bdec74ae0fa421828">Test
LInk</a>

    The ampersand(&) is sent as "&" instead of "&amp;" here.  According to
HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.1 (http://www.w3.org/), amersands(&) should always be
send as "&amp;" instead of "&" for the XML parser to work correctly.  The
latter result (&) cannot pass the W3C HTML validator
(http://validator.w3.org/), and thus I cannot check the rest of my HTML.

    I'm testing with PHP 4.3.0pre2.  Can you fix this in the next release?
 Thanks.
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