CGI-problem

[Garry Steedman]

steve,

that would be octothorpe...
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pedantically yours,-)

garry

On 24 Jan 2002, at 9:36, Steve Holden wrote:

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From:           	"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com>
Subject:        	Re: CGI-problem
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> <olav.viken at kmss.no> wrote in message
> news:a2od3t$qr5$1 at oslo-nntp.eunet.no...
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm having a problem passing the '#-character' to a cgi-script.
> >
> > The cgi script is invoked with a url as this:
> >
> > http:/myserver/script.py?link="T:/test.htm#Mark"
> >
> >
> >
> > Here part of my python-script
> >
> > import cgi,string,os
> >
> > all_values=cgi.FieldStorage()
> > link=all_values["link"].value
> > print link
> >
> > this will produce output:
> >
> > "T:/test.htm
> >
> >
> > So my question is:  How can I get the rest of the input string?
> 
> Further to Jason's and Joonas' posts, the *reason* for this apparently
> bizarre requirement is that any URL may end in a fragment beginning
> with an octothorp (pound sign, hash mark, call it what you will). Such
> a fragment is an instruction to the client to move to the location in
> the server's output stream (if any) containing an anchor with an
> appropriate NAME attribute.
> 
> In your case the browser is sending
> 
>     /script.py?link="T:/test.htm
> 
> as the URi in the request (look out, by the way: non-matching quotes
> after the truncation, and you forgot a slash after the "http:/" which
> was probably just a typo, then looking for
> 
>     <A NAME='Mark"'> ... </A>
> 
> in the output. If it doesn't find it, it will jut display the output
> from the beginning.
> 
> regards
>  Steve
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