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

At 03:21 08/03/26, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

>I see no reason to change the existing encoding requirement unless
>we are to allow raw UTF-8 in headers.  Anything else would just make
>the implementations worse.  BCP137 is not mature enough to use in HTTP.

I definitely agree with Roy here.

HTTP is not a context limited to 7bit bytes,
so there is no need for anything from BCP137.

Regards,    Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp     

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:34:48 UTC