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Re: [ietf-types] The application/www-form-urlencoded format

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Sun, 26 September 2010 22:11 UTC

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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:11:01 +0000
From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-types] The application/www-form-urlencoded format
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On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> >I suppose. And I guess if we ever decide to implement any of this we could  
> >make more specific requirements in the forms section of HTML for that  
> >class of implementors.
> 
> That would be reasonable, although I would expect the rules for this
> type and the "x-" type to be the same except for the separator.
> 
> >After having thought about it some more I am doubting this would be a very  
> >useful addition though. The benefit over application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
> >seems marginal. Not high enough to warrant the cost.
> 
> My interest is in having a proper reference for the format for use in
> other protocols, where application/x-www-form-urlencoded already works
> supporting application/www-form-urlencoded is indeed not very important.

May I suggest using a different name in that case? Having two so similarly 
named types in active use would be quite confusing.

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