psycheclone? Just a poorly written spider? Warn user before leaving a browser’s page
Jun 29

While working on an HTML encoder to properly show PHP code on this site, I perfomed a search on Google that returned no results or error messages.

The strings is quite simple: " (the query is exactly 5 characters long)

The URL that were sent to the server were:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%26%2334%3B
http://www.google.com/search?q=%26%2334%3B&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

The presented entity (") corresponds to a double quote, similar to &.
Seems like the problem has to do with the ampersand followed by the number sign.

Someone aware of this?

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