Re: Violation reports from Gervase Markham on 2011-04-27 (public-web-security@w3.org from April 2011)

From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:08:40 +0100
To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
CC: Brandon Sterne <bsterne@mozilla.com>, public-web-security@w3.org
Message-ID: <4DB7F938.1050407@mozilla.org>

On 26/04/11 21:17, Adam Barth wrote:
> Surely form-urlencoding is more widely implemented by HTTP servers
> than JSON.  Every HTTP server made in the past decade and a half
> understands form-urlencoding.  Moreover, they'll continue to
> understand it if/when JSON goes out of fashion (e.g., assuming
> <form>  and form elements are here to stay).

JSON has the advantage of being human-readable, which form-urlencoding 
really doesn't. JSON is now baked into the web platform in the form of 
the JSON object, so is unlikely to "go out of fashion".

Gerv

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 11:09:12 UTC