Re: Abaco (was Re: [9fans] smacme)

[benavento@gmail.com (Federico G. Benavento)]

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I told you  it's in the NOTES file.

lotte% tail -1 /usr/fgb/src/abaco/NOTES
	   /sys/src/libhtml/lex.c:1258	if(c == ';' ) {

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From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Abaco (was Re: [9fans] smacme)
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:38:37 -0500
Message-ID: <1095b0bca7bc7b4dddf1c4693b07fa03@quanstro.net>

i did something wrong.  you're right &pid is getting translated as &pi;.  totally wrong,
since entities occur in html NOT urls. but anyway, what is your fix?

- erik

On Sat Jul  8 08:45:32 CDT 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> On Sat Jul  8 08:32:32 CDT 2006, benavento@gmail.com wrote:
> > > the offending url is:
> > > 
> > > //adlog.com.com/adlog/i/r=7261&s=670913&x-fid=27&t=2006.07.08.12.32.41&o=1:&h=cn&p=2&b=5&l=en_US&site=3&pt=2001&nd=1πd=&cid=0&pp=100&rqid=00c17-ad-e444AE8131A6EF99/http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/Ads/common/dotclear.gif
> > > 
> > 
> > did you apply the change?
> 
> what change?
> 
> > according to russ href's cannot contain '&' they should have "&amp;" instead,
> > but this is not the rule out there. libhtml code sees '&' and doesn't wait for the ';'
> > so "&sp" becomes ' ', with my change "&sp" is still "&sp", but "&sp;" gets translated
> > into ' '.
> > 
> 
> hrefs *MAY* contain &.  & is the argument sepertaor for cgi scripts.  if you have
> an "&" in an argument, you need to url-escape it -- that is a much different escaping
> mechanism than for html.  for example "&" would be encoded as "%26".
> 
> it is curious that they are not using a ? to seperate the base url from the arguments.
> 
> i used curl on my linux machine to inspect the text sent from the news.com.com
> server.  the url really does have a π in it.  try it out. also, html
> entities like &sp; or &pi; should never be interpreted within urls.
> 
> - erik