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Re: Ampersand for URLs
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Ampersand for URLs
- From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:25:09 -0400
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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 & .
Tom P
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