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Re: [cobalt-users] Off-Topic Question about HTML code from CGI
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Off-Topic Question about HTML code from CGI
- From: Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue May 28 13:00:07 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> Is there anyone who knows how to force it so that the browser does not
> convert the . into .
Not possible. HTTP is not intended to allow servers to force browsers
into certain specific behaviors. Attempts to do so (meta-redirects,
javascript popups, etc.) have been controversial and/or 'engineered
around' (witness Moz's plethora of javascript controls for specifically
those sort of sociopathic actions)
A better solution is to build your cgi to accept . and translate
it into '.'. IIRC, in perl this can be accomplished by:
s/&#[0-9]+;/pack("c", $1);
s/&[0-9]+;/pack("c", hex($1));
tim
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