From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to escape a string which will be added as a ?key=value parameter in a url?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:25:33 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8WZSnpbz3ijfRiZ+2ptCJ7QHTT7=6d0wyq4C1-zvfCycw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1x2oxue.fsf@debian.uxu>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Blindly substituting the value for %s in a format
>> string, as Emanuel suggests, is definitely not the
>> right thing.
>
> Here is another example:
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/isbn.el
>
> ...and observe what cool things you can do outside the
> realm of schoolbook scholasticism!
Look, Emanuel, we all know string concatenation works when you
absolutely know that your substituted values do not contain any funny
characters. Marcin specifically asked for a function that is robust in
presence of characters which are conventionally used as key/value/pair
separators in URI query strings.
See also a small excerpt from the biography of one boy named Robert:
https://xkcd.com/327/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-29 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-27 19:57 How to escape a string which will be added as a ?key=value parameter in a url? Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 20:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-09-28 0:45 ` Yuri Khan
2015-09-29 0:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-29 5:25 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2015-09-30 0:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-29 6:58 ` tomas
2015-09-30 1:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-27 23:17 ` Emanuel Berg
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