Why does jquery.serialize change LF to CRLF?

Question

I'm trying to post this form:

<form id="the-form" enctype="multipart/form-data" >
    <textarea class="form-control" name="list" id="list"></textarea>
</form>

with this script:

$.post( "/route", $('#the-form').serialize());

and debug of the script shows that JSON.stringify($('#list').val())

returns "line1\nline2\nline3"

while $('#the-form').serialize() returns wordlist=line1%0D%0Aline2%0D%0Aline3.

So why does jquery.serialize encodes \n to %0D%0A? Is there a way to make serialize return string with %0A EOL?

Answer 1

This is by design, see here:

When serializing text, encode all line breaks as CRLF pairs per the application/x-www-form-urlencoded specification.

which says:

Line breaks are represented as "CR LF" pairs (i.e., `%0D%0A').

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Is there a way to make serialize return string with %0A EOL?

None apart from removing %0D's manually after serializing.