Re: ampersands in .cddb data

Kevin Dalley wrote:
> 
> Oops.  I spoke too quickly.  I tried a couple of methods of writing
> new files, but I didn't try the right one.  I tried two different
> clients but didn't try to client which writes a new files using http.
> You could switch clients for your bothersome submissions, and use a
> client which email as uses cddbp.
> 
> cddbd_async_command doesn't quite do the right thing.  '&' is
> converted to ' ', but other changes aren't made.  '&' and '=' are
> converted into hex, for example.  I suggest a standard cgi library,
> such as libcgi to covert the strings.

I don't understand what you're saying.  Are you saying that there is in
fact a bug in the cddb server?  And a client can work around it by
doing... what exactly?

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