- From: Paul Downey <paul.s.downey@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:30:11 +0100
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
> > 4) As mentioned in > > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416178#c22> there > > are apparently hardware firewalls that reject entities with a > > charset parameter in the Content-Type (weird, yes, I know). I'm > > trying to get more information on this, but we might need a way > > for authors to override this behavior somehow by forcing a > charset > > parameter to not be sent. I reported this as a bug in Firefox 3.0/3.1 and can confirm there's an issue sending "; charset" to one firmware security device and in particular with a single sign-on service implemented using CA Siteminder which accepts HTML Form requests which send a Content-Type of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" but rejects the same requests sent using XHR with "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF8". We're not in a position to demand changing these servers for our XHR use-case, and as we have no mechanism to prevent sending the "; charset" will have to advise against using Firefox 3.0/3.1 for our application. That's a harsh punishment for Firefox being early adopters of the spec. > We could of course go back to not setting the charset parameter at all > unless the author already set it using setRequestHeader()... That would be a good idea for backwards compatibility. Paul -- http://blog.whatfettle.com
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