Using form-encoding to encode the URI query is well established and directly based on the media type rules. No further specification is needed.
EHL > -----Original Message----- > From: Subbu Allamaraju [mailto:su...@subbu.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:21 AM > To: Eran Hammer-Lahav > Cc: OAuth WG > Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Comment on 'application/x-www-form- > urlencoded' for URI parameters > > Eran - but that does change anything. That HTML4/HTML5 media type does > not specify how to encode parameters into query portion of URIs. I'm not > aware of any RFC that describes this name=value pair encoding. So, OAuth > draft needs to specify how a client needs to manipulate auth/resource > server's URIs to add protocol-specific parameters. > > Subbu > > On Dec 1, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: > > > The latest reference is: > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/association-of-controls-and- > forms.html#appl > > ication-x-www-form-urlencoded-encoding-algorithm > > > > But that's still a draft. > > > > EHL > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On > >> Behalf Of Subbu Allamaraju > >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:05 PM > >> To: OAuth WG > >> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Comment on 'application/x-www-form- > urlencoded' > >> for URI parameters > >> > >> Here is some feedback on the use of the 'application/x-www-form- > >> urlencoded' media type in the latest drafts (10 or 11). > >> > >> The draft refers to the 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' media > >> type for encoding parameters into the query component of URIs. For > >> instance, see > >> 4.1 in draft 11 has > >> > >> "In order to direct the end-user's user-agent to the authorization > >> server, the client constructs the request URI by adding the following > >> parameters to the end-user authorization endpoint URI query > component > >> using the "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" format as defined by > >> [W3C.REC-html401-19991224]" > >> > >> However, this media type specifies how to encode parameters in the > >> body of a representation but not in URIs. In fact use of this > >> encoding for characters like spaces will break URIs. > >> > >> Subbu > >> _______________________________________________ > >> OAuth mailing list > >> OAuth@ietf.org > >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
