Retrieving a query string from a <FORM ACTION> command

Jürgen Hermann jhe at webde-ag.de
Tue Aug 1 05:19:55 EDT 2000


"Paul Goodyear" <paul at gudge.demon.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:_Ghh5.853$7F2.53864 at news3.cableinet.net...
> guestbook and for the last weeks it's been working fine. But all of a
sudden
> the text that is sent to my server from the web page in the comments text
> input or textarea boxes are sent with +'s instead of spaces.

While I don't know why you did not get "+" right from the beginning, this is
perfectly normal behaviour for a HTTP transaction. Take a look at the cgi
and urllib modules, there you find routines to decode inbound CGI
parameters.

Bye, Jürgen





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