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.

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

Received on Thursday, 8 June 1995 10:05:25 UTC