- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:45:53 PST
- To: gtn@ebt.com
- Cc: nms@nns.ru, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> As for queries, I think that Larry's multipart/forms-data is the best > way to go. Ideally, all forms data, including queries should be sent > to the server as a message body, which *does* have a way of labelling > the content. This also applies to the GET method. a) multipart/form-data, not forms-data b) there is no body in a GET method, and no reason to add one; >>Any rationale behind having no quality factor for charset? >>Is the order in the list significant? Is there any explicit >>charset? > I never noticed this, and agree that it seems strange. There's no quality factor for accept-encoding either. For me, it works best to think of 'charset' as a special kind of encoding, namely, one that is used to encode sequence-of-character, while other kinds of encodings are used to encode sequence-of-octet.
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