Jacob Eshed wrote:
Hi Bill, Thanks for your prompt answer.The '&sub_cat=Art + Design' was entered as parameter in Microsoft Internet Browser 6. as a url address:<_http://server.name:port/V/?func=some_function&mode=category&category=Category Name&sub_cat=Art + Design&restricted=all_ <http://server.name:port/V/?func=some_function&mode=category&category=Category Name&sub_cat=Art + Design&restricted=all>>
So the user, if they TYPED this into the URL bar, actually placed three spaces in a row. Any '+' symbols in a query argument (the portion of the URI following the '?') is clearly defined by the HTTP URI specification to indicate a space. (This is historically because spaces are altogether invalid in a URI, in spite of MS IIS's broken implementation, and because the original query arguments were assumed to be search keywords of some sort, meaning "search.cgi?help+http" was expected to be searching the help and the http keywords, seperated by a space.) There is no bug, only user error here. To prove it, create a form submission html page, and in the text of the query input text, type test+me. You will see that all browsers escape the '+' to ensure it's treated as a literal '+'. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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