Re: Last Call: draft-nottingham-http-link-header (Web Linking) to Proposed Standard

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> ...
>>  * Is there a default encoding for parameter values, or in fact any 
>> other part
>>    of this header. I could not find anything in the draft which would 
>> indicate
>>    there is a default. Could this cause problems?
> 
> If they're a token (i.e., unquoted), they're restricted to ASCII in the 
> BNF ( token = *CHAR = octets 0-127).
> 
> If it's a quoted-string, it's restricted to ISO-8859-1 unless encoded as 
> per 2047 (like title*) (see RFC2616 section 2.2). However, HTTPbis looks 
 > ...

Almost. RFC 2047 does not work in parameter values, thus RFC 2231 
encoding is needed...

> ...

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 24 July 2009 05:34:38 UTC