On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:32:22PM -0700, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> Using swish-e-2.4.2 as well as swish-e-2.5.2-2004-09-16, it appears to 
> me that swish is building incomplete URLs as you can see in this 
> fragment of HTML taken from the HTML generated as a result of a simple 
> query.
> 
> I was surprised with the use of a character entity before 'start=' in 
> the URL, but that actually works (see URL for 'Next 15').

I'm not exactly following what you are saying.

You mean you think that & should not be escaped in a href?

I don't want to seek out that reference, so I'll use tidy to support
that they need to be written as & -- also if it's not escaped then
is &start an unterminated entity "&start;" ?

moseley(at)not-real.bumby:~$ echo '<a href="http://foo/path?bar=1&foo=2">link</a>' | tidy 2>/dev/null | grep foo
<a href="http://foo/path?bar=1&amp;foo=2">link</a>

> The use= key/value is not being used with the other links, so swish 
> attempts to use the default database (which does not exist) and I get an 
> error for the query.

Still not sure what you mean.


> 
> <tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="#EEEEEE"><font size="-1" face="Geneva,
>    Arial, Helvetica, San-Serif">&nbsp;Page:</font>1
>    <a href="/pubcgi/swish.cgi?query=peggy&amp;start=15">2</a>
>    <a href="/pubcgi/swish.cgi?query=peggy&amp;start=30">3</a>
>    <a href="/pubcgi/swish.cgi?query=peggy&amp;start=45">4</a>
>    <a href="/pubcgi/swish.cgi?query=peggy&amp;start=60">5</a>
>    <a href="/pubcgi/swish.cgi?query=peggy&use=fusion&amp;start=15">
>      Next 15</a></td></tr>

That &use=fusion is really invalid, but I don't know of a browser that
would have problem with it.

> Anyone else see this? Or have a fix/circumvention? TIA

Can you explain again what's not working?  I just got back from a long
lunch and maybe I'm not thinking clearly.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org

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