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Webmention spec
https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
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section 3.1.2 charset #56

Closed r12a closed 8 years ago

r12a commented 8 years ago

[raised by Addison Phillips, discussed in i18n telecon]

https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/#sender-notifies-receiver

Section 3.1.2 describes the submission of the source and target URLs in the x-www-form-urlencoded format. There is no mention of character encoding, which normally is an important concern for this format. However, since the strings in question are URLs, they are presumably already "URL encoded" using the character encoding recognized by the host server. I'm raising this issue to point out that the charset issue works in this case. However, if fields were added to the payload in a future revision, the charset might become important.

aaronpk commented 8 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out. There is currently no plan to include non-URL values in parameters of the Webmention payload, so like you said, all values are already URL encoded. Since you indicated that this works right now, I'm going to go ahead and close this issue.