On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 15:42, Micah Dubinko wrote: [...] > Comments? At a glance, this looks great! > Suggested Resolution: > > XForms should adopt a slightly modified urlencoding process using [4] as a > guide. Only UTF-8 encoding should be used for characters disallowed in URI > references (instead of following the encoding of the containing document, as > commonly implemented). > > The XForms document should clearly spell out that: > > * urlencoding is not encouraged for large amounts of data > * urlencoding is not suitable for sensitive data that would appear in the > URI and server logs > * this urlencoding approach is an improvement from current practice, and > thus might not be compatible with some implementations that expect an > OS-specific encoding > > With this approach to urlencoding, no reason remains to deprecate GET. The > wording to that effect should be removed. > > > .micah > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-forms/2001JulSep/0752.html > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-forms-req#from-html4 > [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-forms/2001OctDec/0033.html > [4] http://www.w3.org/International/2001/draft-masinter-url-i18n-08.txt -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Thursday, 24 January 2002 17:25:23 GMT
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