Post , UrlDecode and Ampersand

Dave Cragg dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Sun Dec 21 08:35:34 EST 2003


At 6:57 pm -1000 20/12/03, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:

>Or, on the client side; setting up the stack that issues the posted
>string to strip the ampersand out or change it to the word "and."
>But something feels "off" about either of those options. So, before
>going down that road, since the ampersand character is the official
>concat character for urlEncoded form strings, I am wondering if any
>of you wonderful souls out there know if there is already an
>established internet IT spec for the proper way to handle this... or
>does everyone just do WHEW (WHatEver Works) ??

The "correct" way is to only urlEncode the field names and values and 
not the ampersands and "=" which separate them. Of course, if you're 
in charge of the client and the server script, you can do what you 
want.

Cheers
Dave


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