The latest reference is: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#application-x-www-form-urlencoded-encoding-algorithm
But that's still a draft. EHL > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Subbu Allamaraju > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:05 PM > To: OAuth WG > Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Comment on 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' > for URI parameters > > Here is some feedback on the use of the 'application/x-www-form- > urlencoded' media type in the latest drafts (10 or 11). > > The draft refers to the 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' media type for > encoding parameters into the query component of URIs. For instance, see > 4.1 in draft 11 has > > "In order to direct the end-user's user-agent to the authorization > server, the client constructs the request URI by adding the following > parameters to the end-user authorization endpoint URI query component > using the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" format as defined by > [W3C.REC-html401-19991224]" > > However, this media type specifies how to encode parameters in the body of > a representation but not in URIs. In fact use of this encoding for characters > like spaces will break URIs. > > Subbu > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
