Subject: Re: Ampersand for URLs
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:37:50 +0100
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> No matte what various browsers may or may not accept, using sgml/xml
> entities like "&" in a url does not conform with the rfc.
The & is _not_ in the URI. The URI just has & but to place any string
involving & in an XML or HTML file you need to quote the &.
this is why in the location bar of the browser you don't use &
but in the href attribute you do.
David
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