Re: browsers translate characters?

On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Rick Stout wrote:

> I've been working on a CGI script (in C) and discovered that
> forward slashes put into a text field on a form get received
> at the server as the string "%2F".  (And that tildes (~) are
> received as "%7E" and colons as "%3A".)

These are Hex Escapes (or something like that)...  That is a character 
encoded.  No matter what %7E should translate to ~.....etc.

-eric

Received on Wednesday, 7 June 1995 21:41:33 UTC