[plt-scheme] Problem fetching a URL

From: Sam TH (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 11 16:44:37 EDT 2006

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:18 -0400, Doug Orleans wrote:
> 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

This specified the separator as &:

"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 `&'."

sam th



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