cgi problem

[Guest]

I am posting a text form to a cgi I wrote, and the form data sometimes contains
special characters such as % or &. I thought that these characters were
supposed to be encoded specially so they wouldn't confuse the server, but
they seem to be
sent as is. So a & in the data for example makes the cgi think that that the
field has ended. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Hans Le Roy]

Hi Donal,

This is not the best newsgroup to post this question, but nevertheless...
Yes, you'll have to encode them. See
http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/ROFM_CGI/Documentation/SpecialChars.html
The exact way how to encode them will depend on how your CGI was written...

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the informative link. The complete answer seems to be that I have
to use Javascript to encode the form.
See: http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/encoder/

Thanks again.