Re: UTF-8 Encoding Question

Dylan Barrell wrote:

> Why, if webDAV is an extension of HTTP and HTTP specifies that the default
> character set is ISO-8859-1 unless specified in the header, should it
> therefore not be possible for the server to determine the character set from
> the request header?

Because the charset applies to the message body, not the request-URI.

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Received on Thursday, 1 March 2001 14:13:04 UTC