Re: PROPOSAL: i74: Encoding for non-ASCII headers

At 05:33 08/04/01, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>> mテ・n 2008-03-31 klockan 21:10 +0200 skrev Julian Reschke:
>> 
>>> As far as I remember, this means "encode non-ASCII characters in UTF-8, then percent-escape".
>> In my tests the request-URI is percent-escaped, but Host header sent as
>> raw UTF-8.
>
>OK.
>
>I guess the latter can be considered a bug. Eric?

Here is some background, as far as I understand. In the early days
of IDNs (before there was a WG), Microsoft had a proposal for using
raw UTF-8 for IDNs in the DNS. Some of that got implemented in
their servers and clients, and this is probably a leftover.

Regards,    Martin.



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Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2008 06:26:34 UTC