"Christopher K. St. John" wrote:
>
> Kevin Mukhar wrote:
> >
> > The
> > only way to know how the parameters were sent by the browser is to
> > directly read the input stream. (And that assumes the parameters are
> > sent in the same order as they appear on the page. Usually a reasonable
> > assumption, but you never know which browser is going to do something
> > different.)
> >
>
> HTML 4.01 Specificationm, 17.13.4 Form content types:
>
> 2. The control names/values are listed in the order they
> appear in the document. The name is separated from the
> value by `=' and name/value pairs are separated from
> each other by `&'
>
> This has been true since rfc1866 (HTML 2.0). Was there a
> browser that got this wrong at some point? The spec seems
> clear that you should be able to depend on the ordering, if
> you're into that sort of thing.
As usual, the spec holds the answer. No, I have no knowledge of any
specific browser that does not follow the spec. And I would expect that
the leading browsers will follow the spec. However, my point was that
with all the browsers that have been developed over the years, if one is
developing an application that will be used by the general internet
public (as opposed to an app that runs on an intranet) there is always
the possibility that some arbitrary client could be using a browser that
doesn't follow the spec.
K Mukhar
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