[Web-SIG] parsing of urlencoded data and Unicode

[James Y Knight]

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.

At this point, calling it a bug in any particular browser is rather  
foolish, since none of them actually write proper MIME output. It  
should really be considered a bug in the RFC, instead.

James