DOCTYPE declaration for invalid page

[Kevin Sullivan]

I did some more testing. This may be a function of the <cflocation> tag
in ColdFusion (which is similar to the 'print "Location: $someurl\n\n";'
construct in PERL).

If I paste the URL http://server/title.cfm?id=254&auth=88#form in the
browser, both IE5 and NN4 report auth as being 88. But if I send the URL
to the browser using <cflocation
url="http://server/title.cfm?id=254&auth=88##form"> (escaping the #), IE
5 sees auth as 88#form and NN4 sees auth as 88 (both Win98 and Win2K).

So, I hope I am correct in using the construct mentioned previously
without having to precede the '#' with another '&'.

Thanks for responding.

Kevin Sullivan
Internet Systems Manager
Mid-Continent Public Library
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us
mailto:web at mcpl.lib.mo.us

Thomas Dowling wrote:
> 
> This problem does not occur for me using IE 5.5 on Win2k, either.  If your
> coworker is really using IE 5.0 instead of 5.01 or 5.5, it's probably
> worth the trouble to upgrade.  It's awfully hard to see how something so
> intrinsic to the browser's URL parser could vary from one 32-bit windows
> implementation to another.
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Sullivan" <internet at mcpl.lib.mo.us>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:49 AM
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: DOCTYPE declaration for invalid page
> 
> > Thomas Dowling wrote:
> >
> >   <snip>
> > > recognized entity name.  Some browsers will (and actually should)
> convert
> > > those to the corresponding character, so source code like this:
> > >
> > >   <a href="script.pl?chapter=1&sect=2&copy=3">
> > >
> > > ..gets rendered by the browser, and sent back to the server, as though
> > > the URL were:
> > >
> > >   script.pl?chapter=1§=2©=3  (apologies if this doesn't display
> correctly)
> > >   script.pl?chapter=1[section symbol]=2[copyright symbol]=3
> >   </snip>
> >
> > This brings up another issue. When developing an interface for staff to
> > update a database, I was using a construction similar to the following
> > to pull up the appropriate record and drop them down to the next input
> > form:
> >
> >   <a href="modify.cfm?id1=value1&id2=value2#form">
> >
> > My test worked great on NN4 and IE5 on Win2K, but a coworker's IE5 on
> > Win98 was passing the value of id2 as value2#form (this was confirmed
> > using CF debug). The numeric value of id2 was safe, strangely, and the
> > correct record was retrieved; but, the browser would not honor the
> > anchor reference. So, I put in another ampersand to separate the anchor
> > definition:
> >
> >   <a href="modify.cfm?id1=value1&id2=value2&#form">
> >
> > Finally, all 4 browser/platform configurations were appeased. Any
> > thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Kevin Sullivan
> > Internet Systems Manager
> > Mid-Continent Public Library
> > http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us
> > mailto:web at mcpl.lib.mo.us
> >