Re: Docs error?

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From: Geoffrey Young
Subject: Re: Docs error?
Date: 14:05 on 26 Apr 2005


> Beg your pardon? Have you looked at the HTML source code? it goes:
> 
> <a
> href="http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&amp;reg=foobar">http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&amp;reg=foobar</a>;

I think what carl was saying was that the source of the bug in the
discussion was incorrect, not in how we render the page ourselves.

in the discussion it talks about a url in the form

  http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&reg=foobar

carl was saying that if you put a literal
'http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&reg=foobar' in your html _that_ is the
cause of the problem - unescaped ampersands in url links are not allowed, so
the literal url in user html should be
'http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&amp;reg=foobar'.

so, in _our_ own html we get it right :) but the source of the problem for
the user is that they don't get it right.  or, more properly, we are
misrepresenting what the actual userspace problem really is - the workaround
might work, but the underlying problem is that they don't properly escape
their ampersands in their own url links.

at least that's what I think carl was trying to say :)

--Geoff

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Docs error?
Carl Johnstone 11:11 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Geoffrey Young 13:13 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 13:57 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Geoffrey Young 14:05 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 14:16 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Geoffrey Young 14:22 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 14:31 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Steve Hay 14:35 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 14:43 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Carl Johnstone 16:01 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 16:16 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 03:50 on 10 May 2005

Re: Docs error?
Trond Michelsen 14:56 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Ron Savage 23:51 on 26 Apr 2005