The problem with this is that the comma character is special to Netscape
and possibly to other browsers so in WebSpace I am escaping this
character. The string actually looks like this: "?x%2cy%2cz". This is the
standard cgi-bin escaping mechanism.
The odd thing to me is that the netsite server, for example, sets the
QUERY_STRING variable to the raw string, but it sets argv to x,y,z. In
other words the server decodes argv but not QUERY_STRING. The cgi-bin
spec says you must decode strings before using them so this should not
cause a problem. But I can imagine cgi-bin writers failing to do this,
trying to decipher QUERY_STRING without the decoding.
How are others implementing this feature? Are other browsers having this
problem?
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