Arg seperators

From: Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:58:06 +0000
Subject: Arg seperators
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According to the w3c validation program; A URL for a CGI program that uses `&' as a separator, such as "http://host/prog?x=1&y=2". This is a common problem: the inventors of CGI didn't think things through very carefully when they decided to use the '&' character as a separator between CGI arguments, because '&' has special status in HTML. One way to get around this is for the author of the CGI program to use a different value between arguments, like ';' or '|', which would allow the link to be coded as <img src="http://site/cgi?opt1=val1;opt2=val2"> or whatever. I know that php 4.0.5 has a new ini directive for this, is there any way to change this on older versions of PHP? Thanks, DAve -- Dave Goodrich Director of Interface Development Reality Based Learning Company 9521 NE Willows Road, Suite 100 Redmond, WA 98052 Toll Free 1-877-869-6603 ext. 237 Fax (425) 558-5655 daveg@rblc.com http://www.rblc.com

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