Re: TEXTAREA line terminators revisited

cwilson@spry.com
Wed, 11 Jan 95 12:36:13 EST

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> wrote:
>If we allow form data to be returned using multipart/form-data instead
>of x-url-encoded (as is described in the file upload proposal), the
>data in the textarea could be sent from client to server properly
>tagged with text/plain and charset; as such, it should have CRLF
>delimiters.

Some browsers (Emacs-w3 and AIR Mosaic at least) already support
"multipart/x-www-form-data". It sounds like pretty much everyone is
saying that CRLF is the way to go in general. Anyone against writing
it into the spec?

-Chris

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