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Re: [OAUTH-WG] application/x-www-form-urlencoded vs JSON

Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Thu, 29 April 2010 03:44 UTC

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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Joseph Smarr <jsmarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Any reason that wouldn't work?

Form encoding allows duplicate keys. So, transforming such message
bodies to JSON should be defined.

But, really, I think the group should just pick one and avoid the
hassle. I would pick JSON, since JSON implementations bring reasonable
Unicode conformance.

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Robert Sayre

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

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