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Re: XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader with non-ASCII strings

From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@jabber.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:17:36 -0600
To: public-webapi@w3.org
Message-ID: <20060331091736.GB12124@jabber.org> 

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:57:48PM +1100, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I asked on #webapi the other day what XHR should do if setRequestHeader
> is called with strings that contain non-ASCII characters, since that's
> not allowed by HTTP.  

Yes, that's unfortunate. The XMPP API won't have that problem since XMPP
is pure UTF-8. :-)

Thanks for the test results, those are interesting!

Peter
Received on Friday, 31 March 2006 09:18:23 GMT

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