Re: XHR LC comment: header encoding

On 1/5/10 5:03 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> More concretely, this means that combined with the rules coming from
> HTTP a SYNTAX_ERR exception would be raised for the value argument if
> one of the characters has a code point larger than U+00FF, if the code
> point is U+007F, or if the code point is smaller than U+0020 but is not
> U+0009. If this is all ok the lower bytes are collected as the new
> header value.
>
> Does this sound acceptable to implementors?

Apart from the obvious worry of switching away from a behavior that the 
vast majority of UAs currently implement, with the ensuing potential for 
website breakage, sounds fine...

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:50:30 UTC