Re: Mac IE5 html bug = ampersand?

by Nathan Lyle <natlyle(at)nmu.edu>

Date:	Fri, 26 May 2000 12:20:51 -0400
To:	"Tracey Huntingford" <thmail(at)hwired.com>
Cc:	hwg-techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
References:	tracey
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>"Nathan Lyle" <natlyle(at)nmu.edu> replied:
>> Should there be two "&" in the address? I'm not sure that would be enough
>> to crash the program... but I've only ever seen one ampersand at a time
>> before... <shrug>

<Tracey>
>Will it work in Mac IE5 with just 1 ampersand like this?
>http://www.hwcounter.com/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?332000035&date=today
>I think the problem is any amount of ampersands which has to be a bug since
>so many web apps need to use ampersands in their urls.

	I should have checked before I sounded all hopeful.
	I just tried the single & version in IE on my Mac and it
	crashed the program. It *started* to load... which leads
	me to wonder if it's not the address, but something in
	the code of the page itself.   <?>

~Nathan Lyle (natlyle(at)nmu.edu)
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