Re: Factoring out Content-Disposition (i123)

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> I'm becoming very confused.  RFC 2616 is very explicit;
> 
>    The TEXT rule is only used for descriptive field contents and values
>    that are not intended to be interpreted by the message parser. Words
>    of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than ISO-
>    8859-1 [22] only when encoded according to the rules of RFC 2047
>    [14].
> 
>        TEXT           = <any OCTET except CTLs,
>                         but including LWS>
> 
> So, we have a clear definition of where and when and how non-8859-1
> characters are permitted, in spite of your's and Julian's claims in his
> recent draft.  I really wish people would be more accurate in their
> assertions.

I recommend that you look at the mailing list discussions for recent 
discussions about which headers actually *do* use TEXT. See 
<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/111> and 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/httpbis/issue-111.xhtml>.

BR, Julian

Received on Saturday, 16 August 2008 08:01:21 UTC