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Bug 17725 - refactor definition of media type "www-form-urlencoded-encoding"
Summary: refactor definition of media type "www-form-urlencoded-encoding"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Robin Berjon
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-p...
Whiteboard: whatwg-resolved
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Reported: 2012-07-09 19:02 UTC by Julian Reschke
Modified: 2016-04-19 22:13 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description Julian Reschke 2012-07-09 19:02:01 UTC 
Currently, the media type is described as two monolithic algorithms, defining encoding/decoding. This makes it hard to re-use outside HTML, and also conflates issues related to HTML forms (special form parameters and types) with the actual media type format.
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:12:54 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17889 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2012-09-14 10:40:48 UTC 
Julian: any opinion on https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17889 ?
Comment 3 Julian Reschke 2012-09-14 10:45:44 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Julian: any opinion on https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17889 ?

Sounds a bit like wishful thinking; it's used all over the place, for instance in OAuth.
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-06-17 03:05:04 UTC 
Doesn't affect UA behavior and no indications of support for making any changes here. I think we should move this to resolved=wontfix rather than leaving it hanging open with no action for another N years.
Comment 5 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2016-04-19 22:13:00 UTC 
HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: Won't Fix

The noted algorithms are still there and they are still monolithic. See: http://w3c.github.io/html/sec-forms.html#urlencoded-form-data

I think the note at the top conveys a warning of the inherent complexity involved.

If this resolution is not satisfactory, please copy the relevant bug details/proposal into a new issue at the W3C HTML5 Issue tracker: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/new where it will be re-triaged. Thanks!