Submitting input-form data to server

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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 93 01:41:50 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: wei@sting.berkeley.edu (Pei Y. Wei)
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Subject: Submitting input-form data to server
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Pei Y. Wei writes:
> 	<LI><INPUT name="toppings" type="check" value="artichoke">Artichoke
> 	<LI><INPUT name="toppings" type="check" value="mushroom">Mushroom
> 	<LI><INPUT name="toppings" type="check" value="olive">Olive
> 	<LI><INPUT name="toppings" type="check" value="pastrami">Pastrami

Following up my previous note, my suggestions leave unsolved the
problem of how to represent a situation like the above, where a single
name can have two or more values.  Two possibilities:

* Multiple name=value pairs with the name repeated each time.
* A special syntax for representing multiple values; e.g. 
  name=value|value|value

First one probably makes more sense, and parallels Pei's approach.

Cheers,
Marc