Re: IRIs, IDNAbis, and HTTP

At 13:36 08/03/17, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>What would it prove if we found no-one? That they aren't useful  
>encodings, or that there aren't use cases for non-ASCII characters in  
>headers?

Good question. Maybe that the use cases for non-ASCII characters
aren't strong enough to justify the uglyness of the encoding?

Regards,    Martin.


>On 15/03/2008, at 10:26 AM, Martin Duerst wrote:
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>> At 19:26 08/03/14, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>>> Personally, I am *very* -1 on doing this.
>>>> Changing the allowable characters in a protocol element is a *big*  
>>>> change, and there is not an interoperability gain to doing so.
>>>> There is also not a functionality gain; it is possible (if not  
>>>> pretty) to serialise other characters into HTTP headers.
>>>
>>> I think the key question here: is that implemented in practice? (In  
>>> particular, which encoding?) If yes, fine (and maybe let's document  
>>> what works). But if not...?
>>
>> Exactly. I'm still waiting for somebody to point to a server that
>> actually serves iso-8859-1 data, or even more, RFC 2045-encoded
>> data.
>>
>> Regards,   Martin.
>>
>>
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>> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
>> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
>>
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>Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/
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#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp     

Received on Monday, 17 March 2008 06:06:59 UTC