Re: Patch for URI::_query
Paul Talacko <[email protected]>
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--- On Thu, 12/6/08, Gisle Aas <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Paul Talacko <[email protected]> >wrote: >> One of the most commonly requested fixes for URI.pm is the ability to >> generate (and process) query strings separated by ';' rather than >>'&'. >This is certainly true. The problem is that no approach has been >suggested that is backwards compatible, practical and not too ugly >yet. I didn't realise that backwards compatibility was important in this instance! >Since you changed the tests it's quite obvious that you changed the >documented behaviour of the method, so this is not a backwards >compatible change. Right. >But, since so many insist on this I've come up with my own patch for >this that I think is acceptable. It adds a $delim parameter to the >query_form() method which you can set to ";" or "&". >If you don't >provide this parameter the method now looks at the the existing query >for what delimiter to use, then at the global >$URI::DEFAULT_QUERY_FORM_DELIMITER and then finally defaults to '&' >for backwards compatibility. I hope this works for everybody. Sounds fantastic thank you! __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html