>>>>> "Fliptop" == Fliptop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fliptop> so that only leaves one question: how would you encode something like
Fliptop> this:
Fliptop> name=fliptop
Fliptop> company=at&t
Fliptop> ?
Fliptop> <a href="/cgi-bin/script.cgi?name=fliptop&company=at&t">Click
Fliptop> here</a>
Fliptop> name: fliptop
Fliptop> company: at
Fliptop> t:
Fliptop> nope. how about this:
Fliptop> <a href="/cgi-bin/script.cgi?name=fliptop&company=at%26t">Click
Fliptop> here</a>
Fliptop> name: fliptop
Fliptop> company: at&t
Fliptop> ah ha! i hope this settles this discussion.
And I wouldn't have worked even that hard:
use URI; use HTML::Entities;
my $uri = URI->new("http://cgi-bin/script");
$uri->query_form( name => "fliptop", company => "at&t" );
print encode_entities($uri->as_string);
==>
http://cgi-bin/script?name=fliptop&company=at%26t
Bingo. Works correctly every time.
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