RE: Re: Problem with Syntax of cgi-type call ( & needs ; )

When you have a url like:
  http://www.mysite.com/cgi/myisapi.dll/mymethod?param1=val1&param2=val2
in HTML, the "&" in the url is translated into "&" by
the browser itself.
(At least that is what do the versions I am using from
Internet Explorer and Netscape.)

This means that the "&" gets translated into "&" before
arriving to the CGI... with the browsers I use.
(I would say to check the standard but maybe it is always
safer to check the browsers one intends to cover.)



--- Original Message ---
Dan Morrison <dman@xxxxxxxx> Wrote on 
Sun, 28 May 2000 19:42:50 +1200
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Fietz, Markus (Minerals, Clayton) wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to include a cgi-type call to a Filemaker databse
in an XSL
> template but IE5 expects a semi colon after the 's' in '-dso_xml'


Ouch, that line got really hashed in the email.
But, I would suggest that IE actually expects there to be a semi-colon
after each of the "&"s

In HTML you used to get away with & , but XML needs the properly
formed & to work.

Whether this will translate through to your CGI is beyond me
right now,
but give it a go anyway...

..dan.


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