Using Mozilla 0.7,
When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets
submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.'
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can
change in the browser an option or setting or something? Or
Peter Rundle was once rumoured to have said:
Using Mozilla 0.7,
When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets
submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.'
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can
change in
Crossfire,
No. This is valid behaviour - its peforming a URI encoding.
Just NS4.x doesn't URI encode '.', but Mozilla 0.7 does.
Your CGI handlers should decode these automatically.
Ok but when I try to login to a bunch of sites around the place I
get errors about my login e-mail address
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Peter Rundle wrote:
Using Mozilla 0.7,
When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets
submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.'
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can
change in the
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Peter Rundle wrote:
Ok but when I try to login to a bunch of sites around the place I
get errors about my login e-mail address being invalid. Given I
don't manage the software on these boxes is there anything I can do?
Is there an option in Mozilla to turn URI
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote:
All web servers are 'URI enabled' ... it's part of the HTTP specification.
I've *never* seen a web server that does not decode URI escapes :-)
If the form is being processed by a CGI script it is the responsibility
of the script to decode the data
No. This is valid behaviour - its peforming a URI encoding.
Just NS4.x doesn't URI encode '.', but Mozilla 0.7 does.
Your CGI handlers should decode these automatically.
Ok but when I try to login to a bunch of sites around the place I
get errors about my login e-mail address being
