Re: URI::Escape
Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com)
20 Jul 1999 08:47:36 -0700
>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Stephens <ksteph@suburbialost.com> writes:
Kevin> I am writing in hopes someone can explain to me why URI::Escape
Kevin> doesn't escape the apersand? I assume that it does not escape it, so if
Kevin> you hand it an already formed URI, you can escape it with out messing up
Kevin> the apersands used for seperation: name1=value1&name2=value2.
Kevin> However, I am trying to find a way to escape the apersand within
Kevin> the value:
Kevin> print "$name1=", uri_escape($value1), "&name2",
Kevin> uri_escape($value2);
uri_escape doesn't escape the ampersand because it's not a special
character to a URI. What are you doing?
Maybe you want the URI->new constructor instead, especially
with the ->query_form method.
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