- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:45:56 +0100
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... >> And, why is it limited to ASCII instead of UTF-8? > > Because the HTTP working group refuse to allow UTF-8 in HTTP headers for > reasons that I don't really understand, and the handshake is supposed to > be valid HTTP. > ... A change of the default encoding would be incompatible with HTTP/1.1. > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: >> There isn't a good reason to disallow control characters in a *name*???? > > Not as far as I can tell, no... what would a good reason be? Consistency with every other single spec on the planet with respect to names? Best regards, Julian
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