Re: [XHR] Sending a Document with a mismatched encoding

• From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
• Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:38:24 +1000
• To: public-webapi@w3.org
• Message-ID: <20080609033824.GG16479@arc.mcc.id.au>

Cameron McCormack:
> Since passing a String to send() will cause the charset to be fixed up
> to match the actual encoding used (UTF-8, in that case), shouldn’t
> passing a Document to send() do the same?

For that matter, how about defaulting to sending

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

if a String is passed to send() without a Content-Type having been given
by setRequestHeader()?

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Received on Monday, 9 June 2008 03:39:00 UTC