Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 28862 invoked by uid 6000); 30 Nov 1999 21:27:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 28443 invoked from network); 30 Nov 1999 21:27:22 -0000 Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (194.128.162.193) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 30 Nov 1999 21:27:22 -0000 Received: from freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk (freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.6]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA16569; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:26:30 GMT Received: from algroup.co.uk (naughty.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.107]) by freeby.ben.algroup.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA16039; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:26:54 GMT Message-ID: <38444106.D0EC8BFE@algroup.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:26:30 +0000 From: Ben Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: new-httpd@apache.org CC: apache-1.3-cvs@apache.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: apache-1.3/cgi-bin printenv References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Marc Slemko wrote: > > 5. surround values with quotes to allow one to better recognize newlines (as > > in SERVER_SIGNATURE) and whitespaces and also print newlines > > as \n and " as \" for a more Shell- and C-style syntax. > > Is it really standard to not display "'s normally, but to stick a \ in > front of them? I don't see that much. Standard or not, if you are going to do it, you really ought to replace \ with \\, too. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi