Re: HTML encoding of meta tags

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On August 18, 2003 at 22:16, Malcolm Miles wrote:

> I wish to include the various header fields such as subject, from and
> date into a META tag in the page header. This will allow them to be
> more easily found by my search engine. However MHonArc always HTML
> encodes the strings even if they are in the header and will never be
> be displayed. The HTML encoding makes exact search matches impossible
> eg:
> 
> "Dogs & Cats" does not match "Dogs & Cats"

Escaping special characters are always done, even if a browser
would never display the data.  This is standard behavior of all
apps that generate HTML.  Plus, with the nature of data mhonarc
processes, not escaping creates security vulnerabilities.

I do not know what search engine you are refering to, but any
sane one will always decode any entity references when indexing.

--ewh

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