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

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Mon, 27 September 2010 01:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-types] The application/www-form-urlencoded format
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On Sep 26, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

>> 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.

I was thinking the same thing.

Keith

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