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I didn't mention it, but this web application was running on a Tomcat web server, which didn't seem to recognize ';' as a valid query parameter delimiter. Regardless of the fact the web app was coded in Java, this issue of improper error handling is universal. In fact, I found similar instances in my other Perl web applications as well. ;-)

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(wil) Re: Re: Re: Sensible error handling
by wil (Priest) on May 05, 2003 at 13:24 UTC
    If you read the W3 standards on this you'll find that & is the incorrect and outdated delimiter and ; is the favoured and the correct option. Nice to know Tomcat keeps up with such standards. :)

    As a side note, the CGI.pm module has supported both since the first release.

    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_foot.html -- footnote #26.

    - wil