& in url causes trouble

guestroom · Post by **guestroom** » Tue Sep 04, 2001 4:29 am

http://www.abc.com/cgi-bin/SV1&2F100&2D1M
This url and others like it are not properly accepted by webinator. Webinator fetches the url UPTO the & and stops - that is wrong.
The Entire command line is :
bin\gw -mdbl3.set -c\clients\COPY http://www.abc.com/cgi-bin/SV1&2F100&2D1M

the dbl3.set file has the "allow cgi-bin" so that is NOT the issue.

How can I get webinator to fetch the url as http://www.abc.com/cgi-bin/SV1&2F100&2D1M ??

thanks

Post by **mark** » Tue Sep 04, 2001 10:33 am

It's nothing to do with webinator. "&" is a special character to the shell. You need to quote the url so the shell doesn't whack it.

bin\gw -mdbl3.set -c\clients\COPY "http://www.abc.com/cgi-bin/SV1&2F100&2D1M"

guestroom · Post by **guestroom** » Tue Sep 04, 2001 4:33 pm

Thanks - this did the trick.