[html5] r8183 - [e] (0) Add more colour around application/x-www-form-urlencoded decoding. Fixin [...]

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Fri Sep 13 15:32:50 PDT 2013


Author: ianh
Date: 2013-09-13 15:32:49 -0700 (Fri, 13 Sep 2013)
New Revision: 8183

Modified:
   complete.html
   index
   source
Log:
[e] (0) Add more colour around application/x-www-form-urlencoded decoding.
Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22734
Affected topics: HTML

Modified: complete.html
===================================================================
--- complete.html	2013-09-13 21:27:11 UTC (rev 8182)
+++ complete.html	2013-09-13 22:32:49 UTC (rev 8183)
@@ -56129,6 +56129,14 @@
   was an <code title=attr-fe-name-isindex><a href=#attr-fe-name-isindex>isindex</a></code> control, then the first name-value pair
   will have as its name the empty string.</p>
 
+  <p>Which default character encoding to use can only be determined on a case-by-case basis, but
+  generally the best character encoding to use as a default is the one that was used to encode the
+  page on which the form used to create the payload was itself found. In the absence of a better
+  default, UTF-8 is suggested.</p>
+
+  <p>The <var title="">isindex</var> flag is for legacy use only. Forms in conforming HTML documents
+  will not generate payloads that need to be decoded with this flag set.</p>
+
   <ol><li><p>Let <var title="">strings</var> be the result of <a href=#strictly-split-a-string title="strictly split a string">strictly splitting the
    string</a> <var title="">payload</var> on U+0026 AMPERSAND
    characters (&).</li>

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2013-09-13 21:27:11 UTC (rev 8182)
+++ index	2013-09-13 22:32:49 UTC (rev 8183)
@@ -56129,6 +56129,14 @@
   was an <code title=attr-fe-name-isindex><a href=#attr-fe-name-isindex>isindex</a></code> control, then the first name-value pair
   will have as its name the empty string.</p>
 
+  <p>Which default character encoding to use can only be determined on a case-by-case basis, but
+  generally the best character encoding to use as a default is the one that was used to encode the
+  page on which the form used to create the payload was itself found. In the absence of a better
+  default, UTF-8 is suggested.</p>
+
+  <p>The <var title="">isindex</var> flag is for legacy use only. Forms in conforming HTML documents
+  will not generate payloads that need to be decoded with this flag set.</p>
+
   <ol><li><p>Let <var title="">strings</var> be the result of <a href=#strictly-split-a-string title="strictly split a string">strictly splitting the
    string</a> <var title="">payload</var> on U+0026 AMPERSAND
    characters (&).</li>

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2013-09-13 21:27:11 UTC (rev 8182)
+++ source	2013-09-13 22:32:49 UTC (rev 8183)
@@ -62050,6 +62050,14 @@
   was an <code title="attr-fe-name-isindex">isindex</code> control, then the first name-value pair
   will have as its name the empty string.</p>
 
+  <p>Which default character encoding to use can only be determined on a case-by-case basis, but
+  generally the best character encoding to use as a default is the one that was used to encode the
+  page on which the form used to create the payload was itself found. In the absence of a better
+  default, UTF-8 is suggested.</p>
+
+  <p>The <var title="">isindex</var> flag is for legacy use only. Forms in conforming HTML documents
+  will not generate payloads that need to be decoded with this flag set.</p>
+
   <ol>
 
    <li><p>Let <var title="">strings</var> be the result of <span




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