libweb_http.7: Remove obsolete information

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/doc/man7/libweb_http.7 b/doc/man7/libweb_http.7
index 5c01549..0963828 100644
--- a/doc/man7/libweb_http.7
+++ b/doc/man7/libweb_http.7
@@ -404,9 +404,9 @@ When
 .IR application/x-www-form-urlencoded -data
 is included,
 .I data
-shall contain a null-terminated string with the user payload. Data must
-be decoded by applications (see section
-.BR "Handling application/x-www-form-urlencoded data" ).
+shall contain a null-terminated string with the user payload. Such data can
+be decoded with the functions provided by
+.IR libweb_form (7).
 Otherwise,
 .I data
 shall be a null pointer.
@@ -873,22 +873,6 @@ plus a
 .I size_t
 object containing the number of HTTP cookies in the request.
 
-.SS Handling application/x-www-form-urlencoded data
-Due to historical reasons,
-.I libweb
-treated
-.IR application/x-www-form-urlencoded -data
-as a binary blob. While this was changed to a null-terminated string in
-order to allow applications to avoid unnecessary memory allocations,
-.I libweb
-still does not decode the data, instead forcing applications to do so.
-Future versions of this library shall replace
-.I "struct http_post"
-member
-.I data
-with an array of structures containing key-value pairs, so that
-applications no longer need to decode payload data by themselves.
-
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR handler_alloc (3),
 .BR http_alloc (3),
@@ -897,7 +881,8 @@ applications no longer need to decode payload data by themselves.
 .BR http_response_add_header (3),
 .BR http_cookie_create (3),
 .BR http_encode_url (3),
-.BR http_decode_url (3).
+.BR http_decode_url (3),
+.BR libweb_form (7).
 
 .SH COPYRIGHT
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