RE: UTF-8 Encoding Question

At 9:10 AM -0800 3/1/01, 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?

The character set of the *body* and the character set of the *request 
url* are entirely different things.  The HTTP spec does not specify a 
default character set for path-segments or other segments in URLs, 
and the various URL/URI specs (as currently officially updated) don't 
do this either.

     dan

Received on Thursday, 1 March 2001 14:46:17 UTC