26913 2014-09-26 18:01:10 +0000 Should FormData.append()/set() be aligned with form data set construction? 2014-10-13 15:30:38 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG Fetch unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED WORKSFORME P2 normal Unsorted 1 sof annevk d erik.arvidsson ian jonas mike sideshowbarker+fetchspec oldest_to_newest 112285 0 sof 2014-09-26 18:01:10 +0000 The "create an entry" steps for FormData, https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#create-an-entry allows empty names to be supplied. Form submission does not consider elements with an empty name, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#constructing-form-data-set (excepting image buttons) Should the former be consistent with the latter wrt empty names? 112305 1 annevk 2014-09-26 20:13:00 +0000 Jonas, Ian, Domenic, Erik, opinions? 112332 2 d 2014-09-26 23:50:57 +0000 If this is the only area they are misaligned, then aligning them seems reasonable. If they are more generally misaligned though then I'd say leave it. Another approach: FormData is being used in Fetch not only as a serialization format but as a deserialization format. What happens if you deserialize `=value1&=value2` into a FormData? Does that create empty names? If so then letting the user create them via the API is a must. 112336 3 annevk 2014-09-27 09:13:56 +0000 I don't know, multipart/form-data isn't really well defined. You can have a name that's empty, but whether that is then discarded or used is unclear. 112491 4 sof 2014-09-30 19:19:52 +0000 To provide a bit of implementation context, Blink (and WebKit) currently ignores empty names upon FormData.append(). Presto, Gecko and Trident do allow empties, at least at the script API level. Blink is considering alignment (https://codereview.chromium.org/609733004/ ); knowing if the spec'ed behavior is intentional, would be useful. fwiw, i can't imagine a use for empty names, but like for URLSearchParams query names, it's arguably too late to impose restrictions. 113028 5 annevk 2014-10-13 15:30:16 +0000 Yeah, I think we should just allow this at this point. Sorry for not having more carefully considered this from the start. I wish the format had been better defined :-(