RE: Amaya 2.3 binary for Win 98 - long URLs

> From:	Richard Webber [SMTP:rwebber@bigpond.com]
> > Behalf Of Dave J Woolley
> > > 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.
> 
> 
	They *should* be &amp;, although the one before lookup is also
wrong.

	These &s occur in a CDATA parameter context.  In such a context,
	SGML entitities are replaced.  That means that any paramter name
	that spoofs a known entity will get substituted by that entity and
	any that doesn't will be at the mercy of the parser's error 
	recovery.

	The HTML 4 specification goes as far as to advise people creating
	form handlers to accept ; as a synonym for & when the server is
likely
	to be used with GET type form URLs coded in anchors rather than 
	generated by forms.  It does this to avoid the need to use &amp;