On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:53:16PM +0200, amata@tsc.uc3m.es wrote:
> 
> 
>   Hi list.
> 
>   I?m using the CGI library in order to receive arguments in a CGI 
> application. I use the function "parse_arguments" for parse the CGI 
> arguments. 
> 
>   My problem is; when I receive the cgi parameters, if one of the 
> parameters include one of this characters: = or & the function 
> parse_arguments returns one exception. I must escape the characters = 
> and &, but how can I do that? Anybody knows how to escape characters 
> in a cgi parameter? 

Yes, you should certainly escape these characters, and more. Look on
Google for information about "percent escaping" and "url escaping".

BTW have you tried using mod_caml for your scripts?
(http://merjis.com/developers/mod_caml/)

Rich.

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