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On Mon, 12 May 2003 15:54:19 -0400
 Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Web servers escape query string text? Really? How do they
> tell the difference between a '&' coded as parameter
> separator or coded as parameter value? 

http://www.bvstools.com/erpg/cgidev2/examples/input1.html
http://www.bvstools.com/erpg/cgidev2/examples/input2.html
http://www.bvstools.com/erpg/cgidev2/examples/input3.html

These are three examples all using different methods of
reading input using GET.  You'll find that if you type & or
< or > into the parms the server does escape them.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

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