[pmwiki-users] Links to nothing changes cause side effect

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:25:48PM -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:32:19AM -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
> >>Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:15:45PM -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
> >>>>I'm still having the problem with links containing URL
> >>>>parms with spaces (%20) not working though.. any ideas on
> >>>>that (or did I miss the message)?
> >>>>
> >>>>(I've been real busy lately.. sorry if I overlooked)
> >>>No problem -- can you give an example link that isn't
> >>>working...?
> >>*[[PmCal/PmCal?monthtitlefmt=%b%20%y | Short Month/Year Names]]
> > 
> > Shouldn't that be...?
> > 
> > * [[PmCal/PmCal?monthtitlefmt=%25b%20%25y | Short Month/Year Names]]
> > 
> > %b == chr(11)
> 
> Didn't know that %'s were "illegal"... I can change those.
> Might make somethings more difficult.
> 
> I know this used to work with older pmwiki versions...
> is this % thing something new??

While I can agree that it could've worked with older PmWiki
versions, I really don't know how it could've done so and
still been "correct".  It's just part of the standard url
specification that in order to pass a percent sign in a value
to a script, it has to be encoded in the url as '%25'.

So, if it's "something new", it's not intended to be.  It's
always been my intent that query strings in PmWiki urls
follow the url specifications as closely as possible.

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