Re: charset flap

>> This is an issue for any kind of plugin/API/CGI web server, isn't it?
> 
> Servers already have to look through the headers for the Location:
> and Status: headers anyway.  Adding a Charset: header if one does
> not already exist should not be a problem.

Not quite -- he is suggesting that anything labelled

     Content-type: text/html

be converted to

     Content-type: text/html; charset="x-unknown"

as a requirement for HTTP/1.1 compliance.


 ...Roy T. Fielding
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