Bug in URI ?!

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Tue Aug 15 23:49:13 BST 2006


On 8/15/06, Denny de la Haye <denny at onlinegalleries.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 22:45 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > URI::_query::query_form() which makes query strings:
> >
> >   $self->query(@query ? join('&', @query) : undef);
> >
> > Now as anyone in web standards knows, that ought to be '&amp;'.
>
> Just a semicolon is neater.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2

In the real world there's an impractically large number of query
string parsers that don't know about the semicolon :-(

Paul


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