Question

I’ve made a very simple sinatra application which displays a frameset with 3 frames. When I set the ‘src’ parameter for the the frames however, sinatra re-encodes the query string I chose.

For example I enter:

"url.com/page?var1=val1&var2=val2"

What I end up seeing however is something like:

"url.com/page?var1=val1&var2=val2"

All my &’s were turned into &-a-m-p-;’s. Is there anyway to disable this? Why does this happen?

Thanks,

Answer 1

This is probably happening because you have an “escape all html” flag turned on somewhere. Your template language should support flagging strings as “safe”–check out http://www.sinatrarb.com/faq.html#auto_escape_html for more details.