Re: Validation difficulties

Use (&amp), make life a lot easier with Netscape 3.X !!!!!!!!!

On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Rob wrote:

>I've got a dilemma with the following
>
>  <A HREF="page.cgi?arg1=val1&arg2=val2">link</A>
>
>NSGMLS sys (rightly I assume) that &arg2 is not a valid entity and 
>returns an error.
>
>So how can one get around this problem? Or should I just ignore it.
>
>It's not appropriate to substitute '%26' for '&' in URLs in many cases, 
>since CGI scripts will often break the arguments by ampersands and then 
>decode (in part because an argument might contain an amersand!).
>
>Something be changed in the DTD to allow any character in a URL.
>
>Rob
>
>
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