Re: Query strings in links

>>>>> "Matej" == Matej Cepl <Cepl@fpm.cz> writes:

    Matej> The problem is not in TIDY but in your HTML -- every sign &
    Matej> has to be escaped as an HTML entity &amp; . Therefore your
    Matej> A tag should be rather as follows:

    Matej>  <A Matej> HREF="http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/bob?a=b&amp;c=d">Bob</A>

But if the server is using & as its separator in CGI scripts, the link
will be broken. See

    http://www.cs.duke.edu/~dsb/kgv-faq/errors.html#bad-entity

for more information. The bottom line, if I understand correctly, is
that as long as you refer to web sites that use only & as separators
in CGI scripts, you can't have HTML 4.0 compliant pages :(.

Kent

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Received on Friday, 11 June 1999 08:08:47 UTC