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Re: Ampersand for URLs


Robert Seber wrote -

> The conversion
>
> & --> & is done by the browser
>
> %26 --> & is done by the server
>
 Just to put the last nail in this coffin, I hope, I tried it out.  I
changed an "&" to a "%26" in the url query string in an anchor element.  The
site I tried it on, run on an Apache server, returned an error, while it
accepted it correctly when I restored the "&".  This surprises me, but there
it is.

Both IE5.5 and NS 4.73 on Windows accepted a plain '&' in the url string in
the <a> element - they didn't require the &amp; .

Tom P




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