[ic] "&" vs. "&" -- correct html links with interchange

Kevin Walsh interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Dec 7 14:39:01 2002


uhwduhwd@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to validate the interchange generated webpages. But there is
> a
> 
> Problem:
> 
> The ampersand is nor correct. Within links it is important to have it
> as & - but interchange provides only an &
> 
> Example:
> 
> http://some.domain.com/cgi-bin/foundation/index.html?id=Tf8wEUwW&mv_pc=
> 356
> 
> is not valid, it must be:
> 
> http://some.domain.com/cgi-bin/foundation/index.html?id=Tf8wEUwW&mv
> _pc=356
> 
> that is valid.
> 
> 
> Somebody knows to fix this in Interchange. I use Interchange 4.8.5
> 
You have been misinformed.  The problem only exists in the mind of
your webpage validator.

If "&" is to be the URI separator then "&" cannot be specified as
"&".  You may specify your own URI argument separator with the
following interchange.cfg directive:

    UrlSepChar :

The above specifies that ":" should be used instead of "&", which is
what I use myself.

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