I am posting a text form to a cgi I wrote, and the form data sometimes contains
special characters such as % or &. I thought that these characters were
supposed to be encoded specially so they wouldn't confuse the server, but
they seem to be
sent as is. So a & in the data for example makes the cgi think that that the
field has ended. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Donal,

This is not the best newsgroup to post this question, but nevertheless...
Yes, you'll have to encode them. See
http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen...cialChars.html
The exact way how to encode them will depend on how your CGI was written...

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE

"donal" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am posting a text form to a cgi I wrote, and the form data sometimes
contains
> special characters such as % or &. I thought that these characters were
> supposed to be encoded specially so they wouldn't confuse the server, but
> they seem to be
> sent as is. So a & in the data for example makes the cgi think that that
the
> field has ended. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the informative link. The complete answer seems to be that I have
to use Javascript to encode the form.
See: http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/encoder/

Thanks again.

"Hans Le Roy" wrote:

> Hi Donal,
>
> This is not the best newsgroup to post this question, but nevertheless...
> Yes, you'll have to encode them. See
> http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen...cialChars.html
> The exact way how to encode them will depend on how your CGI was written...
>
> Kind regards
>
> Hans Le Roy
> MS MVP Win/IE-OE
>
> "donal" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:404C2F23-70F3-4145-8B21-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I am posting a text form to a cgi I wrote, and the form data sometimes
> contains
> > special characters such as % or &. I thought that these characters were
> > supposed to be encoded specially so they wouldn't confuse the server, but
> > they seem to be
> > sent as is. So a & in the data for example makes the cgi think that that
> the
> > field has ended. What am I doing wrong?
>
>
>