semicolon - cgi

[o4u]

The multiple select in WML always separates the values
with ";" . URL is /cgi-bin/search.py?l=e&k=ar;ze;ho&c=bp&d=1
How can I hand over semicolons from the url to a python cgi script to use the values in a sql query. The problem is that only the first comes over (k=ar) from the key k, because of the ";" in the URL.
I have already tried to send by post and get method, to hand over $(var:escape), putting some char to the end of the option value to make the ";" the part of & # x 58(.
Neither of them works!
Thank you in advance.
Otto

 

[abbeman]

Hmm, you could probably do what is normally done with characters like åäö and such, translate them into %xx where xx is the hexadecimal character code for the character.

This is a bit of a hassle but WML will probably skip them if you do.

It might even be the case that they will be automatically parsed back to ';' when passed to your cgi-script actually, depends on how you get them I guess. I believe the hex code for ';' is 3b.

 

[o4u]

Thank you for yor answer!
The semicolons comes from the wml language(specification). If I use the select (multiple) control element, the wml separates the selected values with ";". I can't change it and when I use the filled variable to make a link I get this
href="

http://xxx.com/cgi-bin/search.py?v=car;bike;tram&s=day

Why does the cgi.FieldStorage() cut off (in this case) the bike and tram after the ";", but that the strange thing so I can get the value of s.
I know ";" is a reserved character in URI, but maybe there is a trick or I can get every values somehow from the class what is in connection with FieldStorage.
Thanks, Otto

 

[abbeman]

Hmm, do you have any control over the stuff that gets put into the url? If you do you can always quote all the ; characters to %3B I believe you will get it correctly to your script.

I'm using a package called quixote right now to do CGI scripting in python that has some nice features and functions. One is the url_quote() which takes a string and quotes it so that you can send it as a paremeter via the URL without having the browser interpret it as some weird part of the URL.

If you want to check it out quixote is located at

http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/