Re: W3C validators and url encoding

• From: Joel Yliluoma <bisqwit@w-create.com>
• Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:25:05 -0500 (EST)
• To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
• Cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0011030115520.20575-100000@winnie>

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Terje Bless wrote:
> You made your point just fine, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head
> around the multiple levels of encoding going on here. I /think/ I see where
> we're going wrong, but I'll have to test some to make sure. .diff once I
> get it... :-)

Just encode the urls twice.

In php, it would be:

$link = 'foo.cgi?uri='.urlencode($uri).'&foo='.urlencode($foo);

print '<a href="';
print htmlspecialchars($link);
print '">Clicketi click</a>';

Got it? Urlencode the parameters, and
htmlencode the anchor href-parameter,

urlencode() encodes any & to %26, and
htmlspecialchars() encodes any & to &amp; .

:)

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