[WEB4LIB] Re: Ampersands in database URLs problem

[Thomas Dowling]

Drew, Bill wrote:

> We are getting HTML coding miexed up with URLs.  Keep them separate.  I
>test my pages on four different browsers: Lynx, Opera, Mozilla, and IE.
>It is impossible to validate links in the ways discussed here.  I do not
>consider the URL i find I must use for some resources as part of my code.
>
>  
>

The original post was specifically about handling URLs within HTML 
markup and validating the results.  Rather than keeping them separate, 
the question was about how they interact.

I venture to guess that you're talking about a situation where you 
extract links from HTML pages and run them through a link checker.  If 
so, you're doing exactly what I mentioned as a problem before: switching 
from one context  to another without translating the encoding scheme.

-- 
Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu