Re: Parsing "&" from header.

Values submitted by a form as elements in a URL should be encoded to avoid the reserved characters like &. So if your user enters

Sanford & Sons
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The URL should be encoded as

...&bar=foo&company=Sanford+%26+Sons&foo=bar&...
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Note that the spaces are encoded as plus signs, and the ampersand is encoded with a %26 (the hexadecimal value for ASCII '&').

The docs of the CGI module discuss how to specify application/x-www-form-urlencoded to your FORM tag, to have your browser encode these elements for you. The CGI module can then do the parsing correctly.

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Re: Re: Parsing "&" from header. by Anonymous Monk on Mar 26, 2004 at 14:52 UTC
It is a strange thing cause it still doesn't do that using `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` [download] on the form but nothing, it's a lost issue....	[reply] [d/l]