John Hermes wrote:

I am working on a site using both POST and GET forms and I use URL args frequently in the target:

action="subfolder/index_html?arg1=spam&arg2=eggs&..."

Using the '&' character in URLs is not legal HTML (4.0-strict). Does Zope recognize other arg separators besides '&'? I don't want to give up the way Zope parses and places the args into the namespace for me.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

John Hermes jhermes@infoglobe.com

W3.org's HTML 4 spec () sez: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B.2.2 Ampersands in URI attribute values The URI that is constructed when a form is submitted may be used as an anchor-style link (e.g., the href attribute for the A element). Unfortunately, the use of the "&" character to separate form fields interacts with its use in SGML attribute values to delimit character entity references. For example, to use the URI "http://host/?x=1&y=2" as a linking URI, it must be written <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2"> or <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2">. We recommend that HTTP server implementors, and in particular, CGI implementors support the use of ";" in place of "&" to save authors the trouble of escaping "&" characters in this manner. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't see a problem with continuing to use the ampersand in URL's which are constructed on the fly to be used in a GET request. The only problem lies in trying to embed them within an HTML document; not a common use case. -- ================================================================================ Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com http://www.palladion.com Palladion Software Houston, Texas, USA 713-523-6582