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Re: lynx-dev How to address & issue?


From: brian j. pardy
Subject: Re: lynx-dev How to address & issue?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:21:57 -0800

On Tue, Dec 29, 1998, Zhao, Jing wrote:
>   Hi Lynx gurus :
>   
>   These days I started using lynx as my http browser on Linux box.
> Everything is running fine except one issue.
>   Unix command line treats & as a special command instead of http URL
> parameters. Sometimes, i got url with a lot of 
>   &. lynx does not work with &(s) in url. Some people told me to replace
> & with %26. I tried that workaround, it does not work 
>   either. 
> 
>   Your help is really appreciated.

Try putting single quotes around the URL on the commandline or putting a
backslash ahead of each & (also with '?' characters).

$ lynx 'http://www.foo.bar/foo&baz'

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