From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@...>
Date: 2006-06-23T04:29:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing the raw/un-html-ized CGI parameters

>>> sender: "Simen Edvardsen" date: "Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:03:55AM +0900" <<<EOQ
> What is this? Webrick, Mongrel, Rails, etc. Difficult to help if we
> have no idea what libraries you are using.
Thanks for trying :) and sorry for being so vague.
I am using Apache, plain Ruby run as cgi and the standard cgi module,
like this:

require 'cgi'

cgi = CGI.new
cgi['idn-domain-name-here.com'] # == BIG_SURPRISE! :)

I enter this 'qwe��l��qwe.com' and get this 'qwe&#351;l&#355;qwe.com'
instead. I solved the problem by using 'htmlentities':
http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
which btw, works excellent, but I'd still be interested if there is 
a solution to achieve this just by using the cgi module itself (and 
preventing the encoding in the first place).

Thank you!
Alex