Posted by Toby Inkster on 12/19/06 12:22

David Dorward wrote:

> You can usually use ";" instead of "&" though, which nicely removes the
> need to convert to entities.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2

You *can* yes, but it means that you need to:

1. Hex encode a literal semicolon as '%3B' when it appears
in a query string; and

2. Program your server-side script to accept both semicolons
*and* ampersands for input (as form submissions will
continue to use ampersands in the query sring), and of
course have a reliable way of detecting which delimiter
has been used for a given submission.

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