- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 05:16:38 -0700
- To: Mike McCool <mlm@netscape.com>
- Cc: erik@netscape.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> This is an issue for any kind of plugin/API/CGI web server, isn't it?
>
> Servers already have to look through the headers for the Location:
> and Status: headers anyway. Adding a Charset: header if one does
> not already exist should not be a problem.
Not quite -- he is suggesting that anything labelled
Content-type: text/html
be converted to
Content-type: text/html; charset="x-unknown"
as a requirement for HTTP/1.1 compliance.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Friday, 28 June 1996 05:25:03 UTC