Hi Bill,
Thank you very much for your brief and helpful explanation.
Sincerely,
Jacob Eshed
-----Original Message-----
From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:35 AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] + in URL
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
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