- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:56:08 +0200
- To: Chris Drake <christopher@pobox.com>
- CC: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>, HTTP authentication list <ietf-http-auth@osafoundation.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Chris Drake schrieb: > Hi, > > Do not the HTTP headers from the browser already say what character > encoding has been used, and do not the HTTP headers and HTML from the That's for the request body, not the headers. > server beforehand dictate this stuff too? Except for the case where > someone is trying to type foreign characters on a PC which can't > understand them (eg: holidaymakers at net cafes where the net cafe has > not installed the language they want to use) - everything should > already be working just fine, yes? I don't think so. Speaking of which, where does HTML come into play here? We're talking about HTTP authentication à la RFC2617, not HTML forms based login. Best regards, Julian
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