Re: ANN: Annozilla, annotations in Mozilla

At 10:38 25/04/01 -0400, Art Barstow wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:23:55AM -0400, Ralph R. Swick wrote:
> > > [Note that a '+' sign in the user name causes a problem
> > >  so don't use that char until the problem is fixed.]
> >
> > Thanks for this hint, Art.  It certainly tripped me up
> > since I had registered as swick+annotate in
> > http://annotest.w3.org/annotations.  I just had to
> > re-register for a new account.  (Note to Marja: don't
> > double-count me as a user for WWW10 :-)
> > Do you know where this problem might lie?
>
>The Annotea servlet received "swick annotate" [the
>'+' was replaced with a space] so my guess is that
>Annozilla needs to URL encode the username before
>it sends it to the servlet.

I do encode the username, etc., before passing them, but neither Mozilla 
nor IE5 think that a '+' needs to be encoded. I can change the code to 
manually encode a '+' (I've tested this and it works), but it seems a 
little odd.

Matthew

Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2001 15:45:58 UTC