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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: amata@tsc.uc3m.es
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] escape characters in a cgi parameter
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:43:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030911174302.GC27415@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ec246d8.46d87ec2@tsc.uc3m.es>

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:53:16PM +0200, amata@tsc.uc3m.es wrote:
> 
> 
>   Hi list.
> 
>   I?m using the CGI library in order to receive arguments in a CGI 
> application. I use the function "parse_arguments" for parse the CGI 
> arguments. 
> 
>   My problem is; when I receive the cgi parameters, if one of the 
> parameters include one of this characters: = or & the function 
> parse_arguments returns one exception. I must escape the characters = 
> and &, but how can I do that? Anybody knows how to escape characters 
> in a cgi parameter? 

Yes, you should certainly escape these characters, and more. Look on
Google for information about "percent escaping" and "url escaping".

BTW have you tried using mod_caml for your scripts?
(http://merjis.com/developers/mod_caml/)

Rich.

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-11 16:53 amata
2003-09-11 17:43 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2003-09-11 19:44 amata

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