On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
I know this has already been brought up, but that doesn't work for POST, and may not work for API clients that don't automatically follow redirects.
That's exactly what Tim said. However, I don't think POST is that much of a problem. Problematic dots can only result from 'variable' pieces of data being put in your query string, and with POST you'd typically put the variable parts in the POST body. And even if you're not doing that, moving something from the query string to the POST body should be trivial.
Why do we actually have these extra unparseable formats? If they're for debug readability then we can probably just make them HTML-formatted, like jsonfm/xmlfm/etc.
To be honest, I don't remember. I think they can die. I'll take a look at the revision history tomorrow to check why they were introduced in the first place.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)