Re: RFC2231 encoding in HTTP: whitespace handling

Julian Reschke wrote on the http list:

> Consider these test cases:
> (1) Content-Disposition: attachment; filename *=UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html
> (2) Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*= UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html
> (3) Content-Disposition: attachment; filename* =UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html
 
> Both Opera and FF understand variants (2) and (3), but FF chokes on (1).

I think FF got this right.  "*" is supposed to stick to the name,
not to the "=".  This also simplifies the ABNF-ication with EQU 
for all cases of "=".

 Frank
-- 
Cc: to Ned, likely he still knows how *= was designed in RFC 2231.

Received on Thursday, 28 August 2008 01:30:15 UTC