Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values

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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:

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> , James M Snell writes:
> >On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
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> >>>So the question is: do we want to allow UTF-8 header values?
> >>
> >> Jim Gettys famously laid down some principles for X11 development,
> >> number 1 and 3 of which are:
> >>
> >>         1.Do not add new functionality unless an implementor cannot
> >>           complete a real application without it.
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> >AFAIC, the main motivation for allowing UTF-8 headers is to reduce
> >(and *eventually* eliminate) the need for
> >punycode/pct-encoding/B-codec/Q-codec/RFC5987.
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> I guess the relevant question then is: Are these headers where it
> is necessary for HTTP entities to understand the value (ie:
> "Cache-Control", "Location" etc, ) or headers which are just
> transported transparently from end to end ("X-FOObar", "Cookie"
> etc.)
>
> In the latter case, supporting UTF-8 is merely a matter of letting
> another bit through per byte, in the former case it opens a major
> bucket of worms IMO.
>
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