- From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 17:47:00 -0700
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: httpbis <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > * Adam Barth wrote: >>Do you expect browser user agents to change their behavior w.r.t. the >>% character in filename parameter in Content-Disposition header >>fields? I don't see an evidence that they will. It's disingenuous to >>claim this document specifies the Content-Disposition header field >>when it ignores how that header field is processed by user agents used >>by hundreds of millions of users. > > So let's see, rumour has it Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Konqueror have > more than 50% of the browser market here in Germany, and none of them > apparently interpret the percent sign as indicating percent-encoding, > and you see no evidence that any of those browsers will change how they > interpret the character; so you recommend, instead of specifying the > sane behavior implemented by the majority of browsers, and presumably > the overwhelming majority of non-browser applications, the draft should > require the unsound behavior of the minority of browsers where you do > not have any reason to believe that it will be adopted by anyone else. My understanding is that the %-encoding behavior is needed to compete in the Asian market, not the German market. Adam
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