Re: [Ietf-http-auth] Updating RFC 2617 (HTTP Digest) to use UTF-8

* Julian Reschke wrote:
>Speaking of which, where does HTML come into play here? We're talking 
>about HTTP authentication ā la RFC2617, not HTML forms based login.

For HTML form submissions, unless the author indicated something else,
web browsers tend to use the character encoding of the document that in-
cludes the form to encode the characters; they could apply the same
logic to the submission of credentials when there is such a document
(e.g., the user clicked a link to a HTTP Auth protected page, the page
with the link could then be used to determine some encoding). Based on
my limited testing, I found this to be not the case.
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Received on Monday, 25 September 2006 22:08:25 UTC