Re: Erroneous 'unescaped &' warning message from CGI urls

• From: Bob Long <bob@oblong.com.au>
• Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:26:47 +1000
• To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <000d01c0999d$af556ba0$0200a8c0@bob>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hamer-Hodges" <chh@delcam.com>


> ---BUG REPORT---
> 
> If I add a link to a CGI script that takes more than one argument
> eg.
> <a href="cgi-bin/cgi-script?arg1=value1&arg2=value2">some text</a>
> I get a warning from Tidy saying: Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity
> "&arg2"
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> Otherwise great utility :-)
> 
> Chris HH

Tidy is correct. You should really use &amp; rather than simply &.

Bob Long

Received on Sunday, 18 February 2001 06:27:07 UTC