- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:32:45 +0100
- To: "Public Web API" <public-webapi@w3.org>
"Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc> > Jim Ley wrote: >> "UAs MAY set the Accept-Charset and Accept-Encoding headers and MUST NOT >> allow them to be overridden. " >> >> No motivation has been provided for the above restriction - I have a use >> case in accessibility repair tools where the error is only in a >> particular encoding, I want to be able to recreate the request that gives >> that encoding, thus I need to be able to change Q-values. > > I think the motivation was that the UA should never claim to support a > charset that it does not in fact support, since the UA is the one that > deals with charsets before passing on anything to the script. Maybe it > would be enough to say that SetHeader MUST not be allowed to expand on the > header, but is allow to reduce it. Makes sense to me! Jim.
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