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Re: lynx-dev HTML entities in Lynx
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Re: lynx-dev HTML entities in Lynx |
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Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:05:19 -0600 (MDT) |
In a recent note, Victor Tsaran said:
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:17:01 -0400 (EDT)
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> I have noticed that Lynx doesn't seem to recognise HTML entities such as
> and alike. In fact, when sending HTTP headers Lynx doesn't strip
> out these entities from the URL and thus causes web servers to complain
Yow! Do you mean that some server is serving a page with entities
in a URL? I suppose that's legal, although I'm much more accustomed
to seeing special characters in URLs encoded with the %xx construct.
But I'm curious: Can you provide the URL of an example of such a page?
Thanks,
gil