Jacob Eshed wrote:
Hi Bill,
Thanks for your prompt answer.
The '&sub_cat=Art + Design' was entered as parameter in Microsoft
Internet Browser 6. as a url address:
<_http://server.name:port/V/?func=some_function&mode=category&category=Category
Name&sub_cat=Art + Design&restricted=all_
<http://server.name:port/V/?func=some_function&mode=category&category=Category
Name&sub_cat=Art + Design&restricted=all>>
So the user, if they TYPED this into the URL bar, actually placed three spaces
in a row. Any '+' symbols in a query argument (the portion of the URI following
the '?') is clearly defined by the HTTP URI specification to indicate a space.
(This is historically because spaces are altogether invalid in a URI, in spite
of MS IIS's broken implementation, and because the original query arguments were
assumed to be search keywords of some sort, meaning "search.cgi?help+http" was
expected to be searching the help and the http keywords, seperated by a space.)
There is no bug, only user error here.
To prove it, create a form submission html page, and in the text of the query
input text, type test+me. You will see that all browsers escape the '+' to
ensure it's treated as a literal '+'.
Bill
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