Re: Factoring out Content-Disposition (i123), was: Content-Disposition (new issue?)

On Aug 15, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
> During the IETF meeting, what was the result of the discussions about
> Unicode support in HTTP? Looking at the IRC log, it looked like the
> discussion was leaning towards allowing UTF-8 in an otherwise- 
> unencoded form
> in headers (applications should start accepting unencoded UTF-8 but  
> should
> avoid sending it right now). If that is the way things are going to  
> go, a
> general RFC 2231 profile for HTTP seems counterproductive.

That is not the way things are going.  More likely is reduction to
US-ASCII and reiterate that human-readable content does not belong
in the message envelope.

....Roy

Received on Friday, 15 August 2008 21:04:23 UTC