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

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>> Two more thoughts:
>>
>> 1) Do we have *any* evidence of HTTP servers actually using RFC2047 
>> encoding, or clients being able to decipher it?
> 
> I am not aware of any, but then I mostly operate in a context where
> ISO-8859-1 makes sense...
> 
> But at least IE6 has optional support for sending URLs using raw UTF-8,
> and it do send raw UTF-8 in the Host header in such setups..

Really?

I haven't seen that, at least not in the URI itself.

BR, Julian

Received on Monday, 31 March 2008 18:11:47 UTC