Re: Submitting input-form data to server

Dave_Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 9 Sep 93 11:18:05 BST


Marc Andreessen's proposal:

> How 'bout neither? Forms submit queries; why not stick with the
> current query syntax? That is, 'url?query' ... with 'query' looking
> something like:

> name=value&name=value&name=value

> ...with the '=' and '&' characters used as reserved characters
> (escaped as %xx in any of the name or value strings, as usual).

Seems fine to me, and I want to drop my proposal to use @ and !

Marc further suggests allowing a given name to be repeated with
different values for attributes with multiple values.

This means you get one name=value pair per <input> field.

Dave