Re: CORS performance proposal

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 February 2015 at 20:43, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>> High-byte of what? A URL is within ASCII range when it reaches the
>> server. This is the first time I hear of this.
>
> Apparently, all sorts of muck floats around the Internet.  When we did
> HTTP/2 we were forced to accept that header field values (URLs in
> particular) were a sequence of octets.  Those are often interpreted as
> strings in various interesting ways.

But in this particular case it must be the browser that generates said
muck, no? Other than Internet Explorer (and that's a couple versions
ago, so wouldn't support this protocol anyway), there's no browser
that does this as far as I know.


> I wouldn't *completely* discount the potential for the conversions
> Jonas mentions here.  A Java server might parse UTF-8 into the
> internal UTF-16 representation and then who knows what happens next.

There's no utf-8 either.


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Received on Sunday, 22 February 2015 07:19:22 UTC