On 2011-11-17 07:14, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2011-11-17 01:55, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> On 11/17/11 2:18 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> - Opera and IE do not rewrite the type; so if the caller sets the wrong >>> charset, this is what is sent to the server >> >> Which on the face of it is broken.... > > Absolutely. It would be less broken spec-wise if XHR stated that adding > the charset in setRequestHeader is illegal. Minimally, it should > recommend not to include it as it's pointless. > ... Such as: "Specifying the charset in the Content-Type header field is pointless because the encoding of the payload is controlled by the User Agent and hardwired to UTF-8." (as opposed to just writing the specs for the browser implementors and leaving web authors guessing) Best regards, JulianReceived on Friday, 18 November 2011 10:10:26 GMT
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