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Bug 17883 - misleading statements about fragment identifiers in application-x-www-form-urlencoded media type
Summary: misleading statements about fragment identifiers in application-x-www-form-ur...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-p...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 07:11 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-08-25 16:50 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:11:46 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17583 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-24 11:22:00 +0000
Original reporter: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>

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 #0   Julian Reschke                                  2012-06-24 11:22:06 +0000 
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"Fragment identifiers have no meaning with the application/x-www-form-urlencoded type as this type is only used for uploaded payloads that do not have URL identifiers."

That is misleading, because there's no reason why this media type couldn't show up in a payload of a GET response. Suggest to simply state:

"This specification does not define fragment identifier semantics for this media type".
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