On 10/5/09 12:48 PM, Mark Kaplun wrote:
I have only learned now that there is a "text/palin" option that I have never heard of, so maybe I'm wrong, but my impression is that there are only two forms of form, a textual and a file upload. IMHO the browser can inspect the form before submitting it and decide by itself what is the correct encoding to use.
You can use multipart/form-data with a form that doesn't include any file uploads (and people do this). Presumably they might have reasons for this (e.g. they happen to have a sane multipart MIME parsing library and don't want to deal with the url-encoding mess the application/x-www-form-urlencoded option produces.
-Boris
