forms that look like grids -- are values correlated?

Question posted by: Chris Curvey (Guest) on June 27th, 2008 07:16 PM

I have a form like this, which looks like a grid of entries.

<form method="get" action="/dosomething>
<table>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="foo" value="1"></td>
<td><input type="text" name="bar" value="3"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="foo" value="2"></td>
<td><input type="text" name="bar" value="4"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

now if I submit that form the resulting URL looks like

/dosomething?foo=1&bar=3&foo=2&bar=4

so, my question is: are the values guaranteed to be correlated? that
is, can I assume that the the first entries for foo & bar (1&3) go
"together" and the second entries (2&4) "go together"?

(or perhaps a better questions is, "What are the rules (if any) for
multiple fields with the same name, and do they vary by browser?)

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