[WEB400] Re: losing character problem

[Mel Rothman <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for catching my error, Joe.

Characters are encoded using the format %HH, where HH represents two hex digits.

Regards,

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


Joe Pluta wrote:
>
> > From: Mel Rothman
> >
> > 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"> .
>
> I think Mel meant
>
> >   <A> href="/cgi-bin/itemdsc?ITEM=TRISUPER7%2BTEL"> .
>
> The percent sign is the escape character; ampersand separates variables.
>
> Joe
>
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