- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 03:18:45 +0200
- To: Peter W <peterw@usa.net>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
* Peter W wrote:
>I'm curious
> - whether Unicode characters with values 0x100 and greater are allowed in
> request headers (especially the request line)
This depends on RFC 2396 which only allows US-ASCII characters, i.e.
U+0000-U+007F minus further restrictions on URI syntax.
>It seems fairly clear, though, that double-byte character sets (e.g., 16
>bits for each character regardless of its value) should not be used in
>either request or response headers. Right?
They cannot.
Take a look at IRIs,
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-07.txt
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