[Zope] encoding strings for CGI

Tim Potter Tim.Potter@anu.edu.au
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:49:28 +1000 (EST)


Alexander Staubo writes:

> There's no reason for Zope not to URL encode slashes (in my experience
> URL encoders usually encode everything but a-zA-Z0-9; has URL encoding
> ever been standarized, anyway?), although I'm not sure if this omission
> causes trouble for browsers. Exactly how have you been bitten?

Check out RFC 2396 entitled 'Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI):
Generic Syntax' for URL encoding in all its glory.


Tim.

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