- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:38:21 -0000
- To: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
> From: Patrick T. Rourke [SMTP:ptrourke@mediaone.net] > > 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 > From the HTML 4 specification: B.2.2 Ampersands in URI attribute values The URI that is constructed when a form is submitted [p.245] may be used as an anchor-style link (e.g., the href attribute for the A element). Unfortunately, the use of the "&" character to separate form fields interacts with its use in SGML attribute values to delimit character entity references [p.32] . For example, to use the URI "http://host/?x=1&y=2" as a linking URI, it must be written <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2"> or <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2">. We recommend that HTTP server implementors, and in particular, CGI implementors support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors the trouble of escaping "&" characters in this manner.
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