Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Nicolas Lehuen wrote:
Why is the ordering so important ? I do understand we need to support
multiple values per field name, but I don't see why ordering is
needed.
I think that it may be dictated by some RFC (the stdlib does it this way
too), I'm not sure, but it's a good question though, it'd be great to
have it researched and answered so that we don't have to go over this
point again.
Grisha
Ordering is not defined according to my interpretation. But at the same
time we shouldn't mess with the ordering. Gotta love those RFCs. :)
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt?number=2388
Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data
5.5 Ordered fields and duplicated field names
The relationship of the ordering of fields within a form and the
ordering of returned values within "multipart/form-data" is not
defined by this specification, nor is the handling of the case where
a form has multiple fields with the same name. While HTML-based forms
may send back results in the order received, and intermediaries
should not reorder the results, there are some systems which might
not define a natural order for form fields.
Jim
