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

On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>> 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..

Whoa, that will open up a new can of security worms.
How is the option enabled?

....Roy

Received on Monday, 31 March 2008 18:29:26 UTC