Re: &-separator from a form

At 07:01 PM 1/4/99 , Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>At 7:22a -0800 12/28/98, Greg Marr wrote:
>
>>>If you want to have name=value&thisvalue as a name value pair, the
>>>_only_ way to accomplish this is to say name=value%26thisvalue and then
>>>decode it in your cgi program.
>>
>>or have a CGI that is smart enough to tell the difference, but that's
probably
>>a much more difficult solution.
>
>
>Actually it's pretty easy -- my CGI library routine counts the '&'s and ';'s
>between each name=value pair, and compares the counts to determine the
>separator.

That's not quite what I meant.  We were discussing:
name1=value1&name2=value&with&ampersands&in&it&name3=value3

How would your cgi handle that?


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Received on Tuesday, 5 January 1999 09:20:12 UTC