Re: [XHR] Some comments on "charset" in the Content-Type header

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> OK, more data in 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416178#c27> comes down to:
> 
> 1)  The firewall is filtering out anything that does not have a
>     Content-Type header string value of exactly
>     "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
> 2)  They'd really like to have a way of not sending a charset.
> 
> They claim to not have a way to modify the firewall configuration from 
> the above behavior, which I guess is no more surprising than any of a 
> variety of other hardcoded idiocies we've been encountering in HTTP 
> server behavior.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why not leave it alone if the MIME type 
isn't "text/*" (the only ones where charset is really relevant)?

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 19 September 2008 14:56:21 UTC