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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Sun, 26 September 2010 21:52 UTC

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To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-types] The application/www-form-urlencoded format
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* 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.
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