Re: CERN httpd 2.13 and libwww 2.13 released

robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
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From: robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 04:30:00 -0600
In-Reply-To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
       "Re: CERN httpd 2.13 and libwww 2.13 released" (Nov  4,  7:59pm)
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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: CERN httpd 2.13 and libwww 2.13 released
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/*
 * Re: CERN httpd 2.13 and libwww 2.13 released  by Charles Henrich (henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu)
 *    written on Nov  4,  7:59pm.
 *
 * > Is this considered a feature? If you look, ours does an unescape_url and
 * > a plus_to_space on the args before they're sent. The problem is that a
 * > lot of

Actually, what I wrote above is wrong. The server only does plus-to-space
conversion.

 * Yes, wish NCSA's server did it too! :)
 */

Such a setup makes it impossible to implement forms which have ampersands in
their value or name fields.

--Rob