Re: Amaya 2.3 binary for Win 98 - long URLs

Thanks, Richard (by the way, did you know that you have a setting requesting
return receipt on your email?).  I'm sorry, but I did not believe that bit
about using named entities in CGI GET URLs.   However, I have seen the same
long URL problem in 2.3 with CGI-based requests that did not have that extra
ampersand.  Use 2.3 to view e.g. the Boston.com homepage.  Or just paste my
code below into a page and remove the extra ampersand.

I note, by the way, that HTML-Tidy also truncates the CGI GET requests and
misreads the later values as entities, at least in the HTML-Kit
implementation of it.  That is why I thought it might be a standardization
issue.

PTR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Webber" <rwebber@bigpond.com>

> > > From: Patrick T. Rourke [SMTP:ptrourke@mediaone.net]
> > > <a
> > >
> >
href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?&lookup=%29abde%2Flu
> > > kt
> > >
> >
a&display=Latin+transliteration&lang=Greek&corpus=2.0&formentry=1&embed=2"
> > > >A
> > > bdelukta</a> <br>
> > >
> > This is invalid; all the &'s should be replaced with &amp;
>
> No, the &'s are delimiting the arguments of a GET-style CGI query.
> However, the & before lookup is unnecessary, and may be confusing things.
>
> Richard

Received on Friday, 17 December 1999 23:35:33 UTC