On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:

>  However, I don't think POST is that much
> of a problem. Problematic dots can only result from 'variable' pieces
> of data being put in your query string, and with POST you'd typically
> put the variable parts in the POST body. And even if you're not doing
> that, moving something from the query string to the POST body should
> be trivial.
>

Good point! That helps simplify things. :D

> Why do we actually have these extra unparseable formats? If they're for
> > debug readability then we can probably just make them HTML-formatted,
> like
> > jsonfm/xmlfm/etc.
> >
> To be honest, I don't remember. I think they can die. I'll take a look
> at the revision history tomorrow to check why they were introduced in
> the first place.
>

Spiff. I'd be happy to kill 'em off entirely ;) but if there's a better way
that still keeps our  functional output formats safe & working, that's
super.

-- brion
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