- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:00:57 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On 2012-03-28 10:57, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 3/28/12 2:48 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Wow, "inflating" is what the specification currently requires for header >> fields, for what it's worth. > > Yes, Gecko has different behavior here for the status text and for > header fields. I have no idea whether that's on purpose; I suspect it's > mostly historical accident. > > -Boris FWIW, when we discussed this years ago in HTTPbis, we found that certain servers indeed send localized reason phrases, and I believe we saw at least one example of ISO-8859-1. Anyway. This is an edge case of an edge case. "Inflating" IMHO is good enough. It would be much more interesting to fix other problems, like resetting a header field value, or the topic of field value encoding. Best regards, Julian
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