Re: Why is the default value for arg_separator.output '&'?

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Richard Lynch wrote:

> But if it's going to break a billion scripts, it's probably not gonna
> happen to follow a "standard" that isn't the only game in town.  XHTML is
> not ubiquitous. [shrug]

Representing & characters as & has been a requirement of SGML and XML
based languages, HTML included, since long before XHTML appeared on the
scene.

What scripts would making this change be likely to break? I have difficulty
believing it could cause problems for other then a very small proprotion of
users - unlike the change in register_globals a few years ago.

> Since there are still browsers in use that will choke on & in the URL,
> last time I checked, you're pretty much fighting for a lost cause, as far
> as I'm concerned.

We aren't talking about "in the URL", we're talking about "in the href
attribute". Browsers convert & in HTML documents (including in href
attributes) to & before they think about them being part of URLs.

Can you name any browser that gets it wrong? I stress that typing
http://www.example.com/?foo=bar&baz=baa into the address bar is not how
the issue should be tested.

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