Re: URL encoding question

"Kiss Gabor (Bitman)" <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:02:00 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.cricket.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I have tried to enconde the ";" character:
> "http://XXX/cricket/grapher.cgi?target=%2FNetwork%2Fa5x4%2Fa5x4-fastethernet0_02%3Bview=Octets"
> but the grapher doesn't work. It seems to be a parser problem. It's 
> normal that cricket doesn't accept "%3B" like ";"?

It is the web server who splits tail of URL (after '?') by ';'
and passes chunks to CGI program.
If you write %3B web server does not split param list but replaces
encoded char with a simple semicolon.
That is unparseable by grapher.cgi.

Regards

Gabor

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