[Zope] sending variables/parameters via hyperlink

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:58:50 +0100 (CET)


Horatio B. Bogbindero writes:
 > ...
 > <a href="newpage.htm?variablename=value">Sent value to newpage.htm</a>
 > 
 > i get this error:
 > 
 > --------error start---------o
 > Error response
 > 
 > Error code 400. 
 > 
 > Message: Bad Request. 
This should work *IF* the URL does not contain funny characters.

Note that many characters are not allowed in URL's and
especially "value" above must not contain blanks (as per HTML 4.x
and CGI). Such values must be quoted with "url_quote_plus".


Dieter