Re: Header encoding (per RFC2231), was: Last Call: draft-nottingham-http-link-header (Web Linking) to Proposed Standard

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > ...
> > > > Seems reasonable, though I am still skeptical as to the use of the
> > > > title* feature in practice. It seems better to me to just have one title
> > > > attribute, in one language, and to upgrade HTTP to support UTF-8 in
> > > > headers.
> > > That's already been discussed extensively, and that's not the direction
> > > things are going in (certainly for pre-existing headers like Link).
> > 
> > Fair enough. Is there a test suite I can look at or some implementations of
> > this feature so I can see how it works in practice?
> 
> I have tests that check support for RFC2231-style encoding for the filename
> parameter in the Content-Disposition header, see
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/>.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the subset used in Mark's draft is supported (and has
> been for many years) by Firefox and Opera.

It's not the encoding I'm concerned about; it's the UI.

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