Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm not sure what you want an example of.  That most people try to
>> transmit nothing but ASCII?
>
> Yes.

Normal web applications require that you URL-encode (or similar) any
data you send to them.  These encodings are ASCII only.

Here's a typical example of how this is used:

   (let ((url-request-method "POST")
         (url-request-extra-headers
          (list (cons "Content-Type"
                      (concat "multipart/form-data; boundary="
                              boundary))))
         (url-request-data
          (mm-url-encode-multipart-form-data values boundary)))

The output from mm-url-encode-multipart-form-data is ASCII, and is
typically multibyte.

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