[Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] Proposed addtion to urllib.parse in 3.1 (and urlparse in 2.7) (original) (raw)

Lino Mastrodomenico l.mastrodomenico at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 22:59:09 CEST 2009


2009/4/12 Mart Sõmermaa <mrts.pydev at gmail.com>:

The bad thing about reasoning about query strings is that there is no comprehensive documentation about their meaning. Both RFC 1738 and RFC 3986 are rather vague in that matter.

FYI the HTML5 spec (http://whatwg.org/html5 ) may have a better contact with reality than the RFCs.

From a quick scan, two sections that may be relevant are "4.10.16.3 Form submission algorithm":

<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#form-submission-algorithm>

and "4.10.16.4 URL-encoded form data":

<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#url-encoded-form-data>

-- Lino Mastrodomenico



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