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Comment by andrewstuart2 | Hacker News Reader

What's wrong with a human-readable serialization format?

Nothing - I was talking about this:

    <input name='kids[1]' value='Thelma'>
    <input name='kids[0]' value='Ashley'>

Whoa. I missed that. Probably by clicking the link to the serialization algorithm.

That's bad. Really, really bad.

What structure are we suggesting? This?:

    <inputgroup name='kids'>
        <input value='Thelma'>
        <input value='Ashley'>
    </inputgroup>

I guess that it's because at first, it was assumed that it was one of the servers jobs to parse such structures based on their names.

Since these same servers failed to establish a consensus (Django using "a=1&a=2" as array, whilst php uses "a[]=1&a[]=1", for example), someone has to start ...

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