- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:05:08 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 19/03/2013, at 7:46 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2013-03-18 21:02, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Have you done any testing around what UAs currently do with RFC5987 encoding there, or just UTF-8?
>> ...
>
> Apparently they do either ISO-8859-1, or use the UA's locale (see discussion on http-auth).
>
> I haven't tried RFC5987, but I'm pretty sure nobody supports it (will add test case soonish).
>
> We may want to leave "realm" alone, and instead add something for display purposes ("prompt", "name"?).
>
> I don't think this needs to be done in httpbis; we can do it later if there happens to be implementer interest.
+1.
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Received on Monday, 18 March 2013 23:05:35 UTC