[Pmwiki-users] Re: AW: restore problem

Thu Feb 12 06:14:29 CST 2004

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:17:23PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:58:59PM +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:25:10AM +0100, Christian Kehl wrote:
> > > > http://www.mydomain.com/?pagename=Main.HomePage?action=attr
> > > Amend to:
> > > http://www.mydomain.com/?pagename=Main.HomePage&action=attr
> > 
> > http://www.mydomain.com/?pagename=Main.HomePage&amp;action=attr
> >                                                ^^^^^
> > You should not use & in URLs, but there HTML entity...
> > 
> > e.g. http://example.com/electricity.php?volt=120&amp=7
> > will definitely give some problems.
> 
> Why would that be a problem, there's no ';' after '&amp' in that URI?

AFAIK the & starts a html entity, no matter what follows. Some browsers
recognize the unfinished "&amp" as "&amp;". The W3C-validator also marks
this as an error:

http://validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html#bad-entity

     Balu