On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Jeff Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: > It's annoying because I don't think "arrays" are standardized very well in > HTTP. I know PHP also uses the [] convention, and apparently so does Rack... > which is surprising. Almost every other environment I know (pretty much all > python) don't need [] to parse into an array (at the expense usually of not > knowing if it's single value or multi value).
They're standardized in the sense that the HTML spec and 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' allows for repeated parameter names. PHP's foo[] is a hack.
