- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:35:58 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, David Cary wrote:
> OK, the "&" makes sense now -- I can think of it as the browser
> interprets all these in a "preprocessing" first pass as it is recieving the
> html file.
>
> I've never heard of this ";" thing; I should probably update the CGI
> scripts I've written -- none of them accept this.
>
> Is there some CGI reference page that would tell me about this ";" and
> other things I've probably missed when I hacked together my first
> quick-and-dirty scripts ?
There's an effort underway to produce an informational RFC on CGI;
I joined the list and I'll try to make sure this topic gets covered
in that spec once I've had a chance to review it.
http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/cgi/
Gerald
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