[Web-SIG] parsing of urlencoded data and Unicode

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Tue Jul 29 19:14:05 CEST 2008


> 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?

> I think that it is safe to decode data from the QUERY_STRING and POST=20
> data to Unicode, and to return Bad Request in case of errors.

It's clearly not safe to do so generally.  If you do decide to do
this, please tell me what framework you're building so that I can
avoid it :-).

Bill


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