- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 16:26:34 PDT
- To: connolly@beach.w3.org
- Cc: glenn@stonehand.com, html-wg@oclc.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> I'd much prefer to see a general purpose replacement for > the application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type. > Somethink like text/tab-separated-values might work nicely. > Or something SQLish, or lispish, or Tcl-ish. text/tab-separated-values > would be nice because you could use other charset= values for > other encodings. Of course you'd have the same nasty interactions > between octet 7 for the TAB character as octet 10 and 13 for CR/LF. Dan, the file upload proposal includes a complete specification for 'multipart/form-data' which is intended as a general purpose replacement for application/x-www-form-urlencoded. We went through multiple iterations both in the HTML working group and also as a result of the review given by the folks reviewing new media type registration. multipart/form-data is completely capable of dealing with multiple character sets, unicode, or whatever coming back as the result of filling out a form. Check it out: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-html-fileupload-02.txt
Received on Wednesday, 2 August 1995 16:28:43 UTC