[WEB400] Re: losing character problem

[Mel Rothman <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The plus sign, along with several other characters, have to be encoded when 
used in URLs.  So, your anchor tag should be:

  <A> href="/cgi-bin/itemdsc?ITEM=TRISUPER7&2BTEL"> .

Unencoded plus signs represent blanks.  That is why your CGI program is getting 
a blank instead of a plus sign.

See this link for more information about URL encoding:  
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

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Mel Rothman, CGIDEV2 Author
http://www.easy400.ibm.it/en

Justin Houchin wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
>             I have a CGI program that is dropping the '+' character out
> of my item number when it is read into the CGI Program. Here is the code
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> To execute the CGI program this link is pressed.. <A
> href="/cgi-bin/itemdsc?ITEM=TRISUPER7+TEL">
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> Here is the CGI Source.
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> 0048.00 D Item            S             25A
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> 0130.00 C                   Eval      Item = ZhbGetVar('ITEM')
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> When line 0130.00 is executed, it should have TRISUPER7+TEL in the
> field, but it has TRISUPER7 TEL. As you can see it drops the '+'. What
> could be happening? Does the CGI program use a plus sign for something
> different? Thanks for the help.
>
> Justin Houchin
> Programmer and Web Developer
> ReliaTek, Inc
> justin@reliatek.com
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