Named character references

This reminds me of a question I have.

Why do some browsers interpret both  § and &sec (no semicolon) as  
§ ?

I had a horrible issue recently where I needed to use the url  
content.php?cmd=update&sect=homepage&id=33
But my server was being sent from the browser (firefox) the string ? 
cmd=update§=homepage&id=33
which of course meant that my application failed miserably.

Are browsers supposed to interpret named entities even when they don't  
end with semicolon?



On Jan 2, at 1:55 PM, Robert J Burns wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Just by coincidence I was looking for the named character reference  
> π in the current draft[1]. While Π is there pointing to U 
> +03A0, π pointing to U+03C0 is not there. I didn't check every  
> other case difference named character references, but this and  
> others are missing. Is this just an errant omission or is there some  
> reason that these references have been omitted?
>
> Take care,
> Rob
>
>
> [1]: <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#named-character-references 
> >
>

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