[Web-SIG] parsing of urlencoded data and Unicode

Manlio Perillo manlio_perillo at libero.it
Tue Jul 29 20:41:52 CEST 2008


James Y Knight ha scritto:
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> 
>>> Ok with theory.
>>> But in practice:
>>
>> Seems like you're looking at a broken browser there.
>>
>> Can anyone point to where a W3C standard or IETF RFC describes this
>> behavior?
> 
> You seem to be under the mistaken impression that form post content is 
> MIME. It is not. It looks kinda like it should be, and maybe it's even 
> specified to be [rfc2388], but actually treating it as MIME is a rather 
> critical error. RFC2388 is just wrong, don't believe a thing it says.
> 

But, at this point, can one consider the content of form post to be 
encoded "text" string?

Or it should be considered encoded "byte" string?


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Manlio Perillo


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