SPUG: Re: perl2exe perl-cgi file size problem

[Colin Meyer]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:11:40PM -0700, William Julien wrote:
> >...
> >> 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:

One of the examples on given on one of the pages says:

  'it doesn't handle the recommend ";" separator instead of "&"'

(http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=28499)

> 
> 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.

Perhaps I shouldn't have said browsers. However, if you attempt embedding
URI's with appended query strings into xhtml documents, you will soon
see the advantage of using ';' as the separator instead of '&' (which
becomes '&' in any xml, including xhtml).

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

Old info... see:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html 
(updates rfc1808)

I still stand by CGI.pm, which Does the Right Thing! ;-)

-C.

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