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Posted by mark4asp on December 17, 2007, 12:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options Harlan Messinger wrote:
> mark4asp wrote:
> > When I write a url in xhtml, with an unencoded ampersand, like this:
> >
> > http://localhost:2063/Client/ViewReport.aspx?Ref=58&Type=SUMMARY
> >
> > the xhtml sytax checker correctly indicates an error, telling me
> > that it should be:
> >
> > http://localhost:2063/Client/ViewReport.aspx?Ref=58&Type=SUMMARY
> >
> > see: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp>
> >
> > However the last sentence there ends:
> >
> > "the browser translates "&" to "&" so the Web server would only
> > see "&" and not "&" in the query string of the request."
> >
> > My web server is clearly seeing & and the browser (FF 1.0.0.11)
> > is also showing & in the url.
> >
> > I am using:
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> >
> > with no xml prefix because, as we all know, IE6 breaks when the xml
> > prefix is present.
> >
> > What is the cause and solution of this problem.
> >
> > I am using FF 1.0.0.11, via a local asp.net 2.0 site through the
> > mini webserver (Cassini) on WinXP SP2 with all latest o/s updates
> > installed (apart from IE7, I am using IE6 on this PC).
>
> You're using 1.0.0.11? The bug is that it's practically the very
> first version released and it was superseded by 1.0.1 within a couple
> of months, by 1.5 over two years ago, and by 2.0 over a year ago.
> Based on usage of the high-traffic site I'm involved with, virtually
> no one is using Firefox 1.x any more (probably because Firefox
> prompts you to update it), and you certainly shouldn't be doing
> anything with a version that has been outdated over ten times as long
> as the product had existed when the version was replaced.
Apologies, a typo. I am using FF 2.0.0.11
> > Do I have to apply a url decode algorithm when the web page loads?
> > That is far from ideal because the problem here is that the browser
> > is not showing the decoded url.
> >
> > Is this a bug in FF?
>
> There is no problem with this whatsoever in Firefox 2, I can tell you
> that. Use & in your links and images and so forth and it'll work.
So exactly what should happen.
If I have, say:
<a href="../page1.aspx?a=1&b=gonow">Go Now</a>
in my html, on clicking the link, will FF give :
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&b=gonow
in the address bar?
It's not doing that for me. It gives
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&b=gonow
Which the server reads and tells me that it can't get my querystrings.
I suppose I can url decode this at the server end to fix it.
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