HTML form coding problem

[David A. Bandel]

Regurgitating the prose of Bill Campbell Bill Campbell
<linux-sxs at celestial.com> on Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:23:21 -0700: begin  

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|>
|>When the calculate button is pressed, the end of the URL line shows:
|>&_target=%23results
|>If I change the %23 to a # sign, it works, but as the %23 it doesn't.
|>
|>Anyone know how to keep Apache/FireFox/Perl/whoever from changing the # to %23?
|
|I think you're running into an HTML standard in which is encodes
|many ``non-standard'' ASCII characters to their hex equivalent.

exactly.  The # is reserved.  Nevertheless, I need it to go into the
URL bar unchanged.

|
|What tools are you using to process the form?  I think most of
|the standard perl/python/php tools have the ability to map these
|back to ascii.

Perl is doing the form processing, or at least, it's coded in Perl.
Code is here: http://www.pananix.com/calcs.txt

David A. Bandel
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