[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?
> [...]
Manlio Perillo
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