RE: Re: losing character problem -- WEB400

Subject: RE: [WEB400] Re: losing character problem
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 12:10:37 -0500
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> 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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