- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:14:39 +0300
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, uri@w3.org, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 30, 2008, at 18:16, Julian Reschke wrote: > I personally dislike the idea of intermediates recoding, but that > doesn't mean it doesn't happen... Where does it happen? WAP gateways don't count, because the kind of clients one would use with a WAP gateway aren't suitable for browsing the Web. I suspect that transcoding proxies on the Web (as opposed to "mobile webs") are mythical. If they ever existed, they are obsolete nowadays. Certainly transcoding away from UTF-8 is a totally obsolete concept, since Web browsers support UTF-8. (This is a circular statement: Obviously, a piece of software that doesn't support UTF-8 isn't suitable for browsing the Web.) Moreover, the idea that transcoding proxies were deployed between Web servers and Web browsers is also implausible due to the way the character encoding that reaches the browsers affects form submission. How could you deploy a transcoding proxy without breaking form submissions? Over the years when I've asked for examples, people citing to transcoding intermediates as a potential problem never point to an actual deployment of a transcoding Web intermediate that is truly an independent intermediate (i.e. a proxy). Instead, people tend to cite Russian Apache or, on occasion, other Apache filtering solutions. These are transcoding on the origin server and under the control of the publisher. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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