Forum OpenACS Development: Re: ad_quotehtml speed improvement

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12: Re: ad_quotehtml speed improvement (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 01/08/04 06:19 PM

I think what you would do, is on the .tcl page: 


set url my_url?[ad_export_url_vars var1 var2]

Then use the ;noquote because the result might contain actual '&' characters, for example. If you quote those, the url might not work.

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18: Re: ad_quotehtml speed improvement (response to 12)
Posted by Nis Jørgensen on 01/09/04 12:59 PM
I assume you mean
  export_url_vars
rather than
  ad_export_url_vars

(unless ad_export_url_vars was added in 5.0)

If you do, you are still missing the point: The '&' characters in the url's MUST be quoted for the html to be valid. Since most browsers don't care, the problem is not big though.

Here is an example that might cause problems:

<a href="calculate-resistance?volt=2&amp=3">test</a>

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19: Re: ad_quotehtml speed improvement (response to 18)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 01/09/04 05:49 PM

That an interestingly confusing example.