[cobalt-users] RE: Off-Topic Question about HTML code from CGI

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:07 PM -0400 5/28/02, Ian is rumored to have typed:

> If I write a basic HTML page and place '.' into it and preview it, it shows
> in the source as a '.' not the hex version, so is there anyway of having my
> script do its thing as normal and then conducting some sort of search and
> replace within the string to replace the hex '.' with a '.'

   As has been noted repetedly by others, your problem is likely within the
CGI running on the web server machine, not the receiver browser; and instead
of "search and replace," you want to stop your script from escaping that "."
in the first place.

   I'd strongly advise you to take this to one of the many mailing lists on
the Net which specifically discuss CGI scripting in whatevber language your
CGI is written in...but plan on supplying source code for your CGI if you
want anyone on those lists to help. (It doesn't necessarily follow that
someone who owns a Cobalt machine is proficient in whatever scripting
language you are using for your script...look for a list which deals
_specifically_ with CGI scripting in your language of choice.)

          Charlie