Re: Submitting input-form data to server

Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-id: <9309091018.AA23275@manuel.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Submitting input-form data to server
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 11:18:05 BST
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1]
Status: RO
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