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

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

On 2010/09/27 6:02, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>> Can you give some rough information on where
>> application/www-form-urlencoded is implemented or implementation is planned?
>
> Well, that depends on what you would consider an implementation. You can
> use it in the `enctype` attribute of the form element in a HTML document
> right now (if you use "get" as the method and UTF-8 for the document)
> and it will work in most browsers, except they use "&" as separator. The
> label as such isn't used anywhere that I know of yet. I do not know of
> anyone other than me planning to support the label.

Ok. That implies that if you use another character encoding for the 
document, it will fail, which isn't helpful at all. It also means that 
you can get exactly the same, with the above preconditions, if you use 
the x- variant.

>> Also, in many cases, an identifier without x- denotes just the same as
>> the identifier with the x-. I think it would be good if the registration
>> template contained at least a small reminder and pointer to make clear
>> that it's not exactly the same as the x- variant.
>
> As I understand it, IANA does not copy the template to its web site, and
> I don't know of anyone else using the templates out of context, and the
> form does not really have a field where this could go, so I am reluctant
> to do that.

That's okay then. But the draft should be very explicit about it.

Regards,   Martin.

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