- From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:02:27 +0100
- To: Eric Asher Perlman <ericp@well.com>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
> 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. And some browsers escape space characters with + signs, too. There's a decent yet simple C parser for these things in ftp://ftp.fv.com/pub/code/fv-wwwcgi/member.tar
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