The fun and charm of URL quoting is that you need to do it twice .Differently. That's because there's two different entities involved:browsers and web servers.

Strictly speaking, about the only thing that you have to quote forthe browser is quote characters, because otherwise your nice comes out very confusing. If you are being a good web standards monkeyyou need to quote at least ampersands (&'s) as well, because otherwisethe

This week, we:

• got 12,551 messages from 234 different IP addresses.
• handled 17,960 sessions from 979 different IP addresses.
• received 444,512 connections from at least 44,262 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 50 connections being checked at once; 50 is themaximum number allowed.

Mail received and SMTP session volume is down a bit from last week , but connection volume has spiked to huge

With normal file IO, when you do do ' read(fd, buf, len) ' you'll almostalways get back len bytes unless you hit EOF or a disk IO error. Thisbreeds a certain sloppyness when filling buffers; an awful lot of codeeffectively ignores the return value of read() except to check it forerrors.

This can and will bite you on the rear when writing socket code, becausenetworks only give you so much data at once. Short reads are routine for socket IO