Return-Path: owner-new-httpd Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) id CAA18531; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 02:55:41 -0700 Received: from cass41 by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) with SMTP id CAA18522; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 02:55:36 -0700 Received: from cass39.ast.cam.ac.uk by cass41 with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0rycfZ-00004lC; Tue, 11 Apr 95 10:55 BST Received: by cass39.ast.cam.ac.uk (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0rycfW-0003p8C; Tue, 11 Apr 95 10:55 BST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 10:55 BST From: drtr@ast.cam.ac.uk (David Robinson) To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: New version of B59 uploaded: B59-include-bugs-2.txt Content-Length: 684 Sender: owner-new-httpd@hyperreal.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com >> * Tag value strings should not need quoting if they don't contain special >> characters, e.g. <--#echo var=PATH --> > >That might be regarded as a good thing. Better to use quotes everywhere >than have special cases. I'd vote to keep it this way unless there's >a good reason to change it. The reason is to be compatible with standard HTML syntax. But it's hardly a high priority. >> * There should be an option to #echo to escape any html-active characters >> in the echoed string. > >define a new directive "#escape" which is the same as "#echo" with >the side-effect of escaping the results. ? What I had in mind was <--#echo var="DOCUMENT_URI" escaped --> David.