[Mapserver-users] Why Mapserver GML does not validate with XMLSpy

[Daniel Morissette]

Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> what the XMLSpy people are saying is that using & in a URL to a CGI 
> is valid.
> 

Can you or anyone point us to a RFC or an authoritative document that 
clearly states that a CGI should decode HTML entities before reading the 
QEURY_STRING?  I still think this is a twisted way to call a CGI and I 
don't think we should modify MapServer to support it.  A CGI shouldn't 
have to decode HTML entities, that just doesn't make sense.



> If I click on the link I do not get the schema back, I get a service 
> exception report that the version is missing. Or if I use & instead 
> of & even before the service=WFS name-value pair, I get the "mapserv(): 
> Web application error. No template provided." error. So mapserv CGI only 
> interprets name value pairs if they are separated by & instead of &.
> 
> Is this something Windows specific perhaps, you are probably on Linux 
> when clicking the URL in a browser? XMLSpy is on Windows as well ofcourse.
> 

You're correct. It's my browser that decodes the & into "&" before 
calling the server.  I see that they are not encoded any more in the URL 
bar.

I had seen that the first ampersand in the URL in your message was not 
encoded and I assumed that none of them were encoded sorry.

Daniel
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