[plt-scheme] Problem fetching a URL

From: Doug Orleans (dougorleans at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 16:18:40 EDT 2006

Robby Findler writes:
 > Do you (or does anyone else) have a reference to an rfc or similar that
 > actually says what the syntax for queries is supposed to be?
 > rfc3986.txt (the latest url syntax rfc I know of) doesn't seem to say.

The HTML 4.01 spec defines the MIME type application/x-www-form-urlencoded:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#form-content-type

See also XForms, which uses a "separator" attribute whose default
value is a semicolon:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice11.html#serialize-urlencode
http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice3.html#structure-model-submission

--dougorleans at gmail.com


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