- From: Vartan Piroumian [TEMP] <vartan@eng.sun.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:59:41 -0700
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: vartan@seacat-73.eng.sun.com
Hi folks, I apologize in advance if the following question shows my lack of understanding of your latest spec. :-) I am reading your draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-01.txt document which describes the HTTP 1.1 specification. I have the following questions regarding HTTP support for internationalization. 1. Does the HTTP spec stipulate that both request and response headers must always be sent in ASCII? 2. If the answer to 1 above is "no", how can a client and server negotiate "Accept-encoding"? How else can such negotiation take place? Who will standarize the method of negotiation? E.g., a Unicode encoded client request is unreadable by an HTTP server running on an EUC machine, regardless of the locale in which either the client or server is running. 3. What is the difference between the "Content-language" and "Accept-Language" fields? Which one implies the runtime locale setting of the client? I would greatly appreciate any insight into the above questions. You may email or call me. Thank you in advance. Regards, Vartan Piroumian phone: 415.786.4431 email: vartan.piroumian@sun.com
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