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Re: [apps-discuss] Feedback on multipart/form-data

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Fri, 20 September 2013 20:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Feedback on multipart/form-data
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> I think it is useful to do whatever we can to standardize 
> multipart/form-data. But it is going to be an imperfect solution.
>
> Every browser already has to support JSON in practice. JSON is where the 
> industry is going. JSON already has full compliance with UTF-8 etc.

I'll take this opputunity to remind readers that multipart/form-data is 
*WIDELY* used by non-browsers as well. And those non-browsers may not all have 
any JSON awareness at all.

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