encoding newlines in attribute values

[Granqvist, Hans]

Hi Johnny,

Just so we're all on the same page: Can you post a link 
to the referenced proposal?

Thanks,
Hans 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: specs-bounces at openid.net 
> [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Johnny Bufu
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:46 PM
> To: OpenID specs list
> Subject: Re: encoding newlines in attribute values
> 
> 
> On 20-Apr-07, at 11:18 AM, Dick Hardt wrote:
> > To expand on that and include Mark Wahl's proposal about locale 
> > encoding[1] in a standard way for attributes so that the 
> libraries can 
> > do the right thing 99% of the time.
> >
> > I would propose that AX data have a default encoding that can be 
> > overrode by the attribute metadata. The default would be:
> >
> > URL encoding for text data
> > escape sequence for locale using mechanism in RFC 3866 
> escape sequence 
> > to indicate binary data that is then base64 encoded
> 
> Does this work for everyone? If there are no issues, I'd like 
> to summarize it in the spec so that:
> 
> - a "default encoding" is defined as described above
> - attribute specific encodings can be used, and their 
> presence is signaled with an escape sequence similar to the 
> ones used in Mark's language tags proposal.
> 
> The default encoding would then be applied only when a 
> attribute- specific encoding was not used.
> 
> Agreed?
> 
> 
> Johnny
> 
> 
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