Warn header (P6) vs RFC2047 encoding

Hi,

I noticed that P6 still has a normative dependency on RFC 2047: for 
encoding non-ISO-8859-1 characters in Warn headers:

"The warn-text SHOULD be in a natural language and character set that is 
most likely to be intelligible to the human user receiving the response. 
This decision can be based on any available knowledge, such as the 
location of the cache or user, the Accept-Language field in a request, 
the Content-Language field in a response, etc. The default language is 
English and the default character set is ISO-8859-1 ([ISO-8859-1]).

If a character set other than ISO-8859-1 is used, it MUST be encoded in 
the warn-text using the method described in [RFC2047]." -- 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-latest.html#rfc.section.3.6.p.9>

I think this should be dropped the same way we already did it for the 
Reason Phrase (see <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/94>).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 23 July 2009 10:31:02 UTC