- From: Anne van Kesteren <notifications@github.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:25:28 -0800
- To: whatwg/url <url@noreply.github.com>
- Message-ID: <whatwg/url/issues/85@github.com>
HTML has/had this:
```
<h3><dfn><code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code></dfn></h3>
<p>This registration is for community review and will be submitted to the IESG for review,
approval, and registration with IANA.</p>
<!--
To: ietf-types@iana.org
Subject: Registration of media type application/x-www-form-urlencoded
-->
<dl>
<dt>Type name:</dt>
<dd>application</dd>
<dt>Subtype name:</dt>
<dd>x-www-form-urlencoded</dd>
<dt>Required parameters:</dt>
<dd>No parameters</dd>
<dt>Optional parameters:</dt>
<dd>No parameters</dd>
<dt>Encoding considerations:</dt>
<dd>7bit (US-ASCII encoding of octets that themselves can be encoding text using any <span>ASCII-compatible encoding</span>)</dd>
<dt>Security considerations:</dt>
<dd>
<p>In isolation, an <code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code>
payload poses no security risks. However, as this type is usually
used as part of a form submission, all the risks that apply to
HTML forms need to be considered in the context of this type.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Interoperability considerations:</dt>
<dd>
Rules for generating and processing
<code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code> payloads are
defined in this specification.
</dd>
<dt>Published specification:</dt>
<dd>
This document is the relevant specification.
Algorithms for <span data-x="application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding algorithm">encoding</span>
and <span data-x="application/x-www-form-urlencoded decoding algorithm">decoding</span> are defined.
</dd>
<dt>Applications that use this media type:</dt>
<dd>
Web browsers and servers.
</dd>
<dt>Additional information:</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>Magic number(s):</dt>
<dd>There is no reliable mechanism for recognising <code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code> payloads.</dd>
<dt>File extension(s):</dt>
<dd>Not applicable.</dd>
<dt>Macintosh file type code(s):</dt>
<dd>Not applicable.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>Person & email address to contact for further information:</dt>
<dd>Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch></dd>
<dt>Intended usage:</dt>
<dd>Common</dd>
<dt>Restrictions on usage:</dt>
<dd>This type is only intended to be used to describe HTML form
submission payloads.</dd>
<dt>Author:</dt>
<dd>Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch></dd>
<dt>Change controller:</dt>
<dd>W3C</dd>
</dl>
<p>Fragment identifiers have no meaning with the <code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code>
type.</p>
```
None of this seem sreally useful, but I guess we can add a similar section.
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