SPUG: Re: perl2exe perl-cgi file size problem

[William Julien]

>...
>> Modern browsers use ';' instead of '&' to separate parameters in the URL.
>> The [deleted] code sample would not handle that, so it may well fail to
>> just read text from a simple form input.
>>
>> I'd strongly suggest using CGI.pm instead of any hand-rolled solution.

Per rfc, the "&" is the delimintor. The examples given on the web pages
provied were handling the case where you have "&;". eg:

$str =~ tr/;/&/;
$str =~ tr/&//s;

The only time when this is an issue is when the broser issues a post or
get with a set of complex multipart mixed boundries. This is application
dependant, and under the control of the server code which designed to
work with multipart/mixed mime headers, and browser object parameters. No
browser that I know of replaces "&" for ";" on the get or post delimitor.
See...

http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1808.html

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