Mark Nottingham said: > The (potential) problem is that an intermediary (for example) needs > to be able to handle headers that it doesn't understand. If it's been > built to store headers as iso-8859-1 strings as they pass through (a > reasonable assumption, considering 2616), an unknown header with > another encoding -- no matter how specified or flagged -- may break it. On the other hand, the *syntax* allows any valid UTF-8 sequence, since it doesn't forbid the octets %x80-9F. So it's unlikely that anything will break unless someone is being very strict in their checking. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <clive@demon.net> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <clive@davros.org> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 THUS plc | |Received on Monday, 20 August 2007 10:29:26 GMT
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