- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:42:39 +0200
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- CC: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>, HTTP authentication list <ietf-http-auth@osafoundation.org>
Jim Luther schrieb: > > While we're on this subject... In rfc2617 secction 3.2.1, it says: > >> realm >> A string to be displayed to users so they know which username and >> password to use. > > It would be also nice to define the encoding of the realm string so that > clients that display the realm to users can display it correctly. We've > seen realms from servers encoded UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, and with various > Windows encodings. There's no good way to guess which encoding to use > and so whatever is used is currently wrong on some servers. Hm. I was thinking "should be UTF-8, of course". But doesn't really RFC2045 apply here at least in theory? Best regards, Julian
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