Re: [Ietf-http-auth] Updating RFC 2617 (HTTP Digest) to use UTF-8

Chris Drake schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Do not the HTTP headers from the browser already say what character
> encoding has been used, and do not the HTTP headers and HTML from the

That's for the request body, not the headers.

> server beforehand dictate this stuff too?  Except for the case where
> someone is trying to type foreign characters on a PC which can't
> understand them (eg: holidaymakers at net cafes where the net cafe has
> not installed the language they want to use) - everything should
> already be working just fine, yes?

I don't think so.

Speaking of which, where does HTML come into play here? We're talking 
about HTTP authentication à la RFC2617, not HTML forms based login.

Best regards, Julian