HTML entities in URLs and urlencoding

[Milian Wolff]

Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 schrieb Waylan Limberg:

> We recently received the following bug report for the python-markdown

>

> implementation:

> > The "&" are escaped in URLs.

> >

> > An example:

> >     [Link](http://www.site.com/?param1=value1&param2=value1)

> >

> > Should output:

> >     <a href="http://www.site.com/?param1=value1&param2=value1">Link</a>


No it shouldn't. This is invalid (x)HTML.


> > Currently outputs:

> >     <a

> > href="http://www.site.com/?param1=value1&amp;param2=value1">Link</a>


Which is valid (x)HTML!


> > So the "&" must not be escaped!


It must! See also <http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp>



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