- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:44:30 -0500
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
On 2/19/13 1:40 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:51 PM, David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com> wrote: >> My understanding of the spec is that the charset shouldn't be added, >> because: >> 1) the Content-Type header is in author request header >> 2) the value is a valid MIME-type (tell me if I'm wrong on this) >> 3) it does not have a charset parameter (so, the condition of step 4 doesn't >> apply in my opinion). >> >> Who should I file a bug against? > > Firefox. > > http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#the-send%28%29-method is pretty clear that > we only correct charset parameters. Even if > application/vnd.ooz.user.v1+json was invalid we still should not > muddle with it. Note that Firefox adds the charset even if it wasn't set by the page because web developers were asking for it to aid server-side processing... The alternative is that the server has no idea what to do with the data. :( -Boris
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