- From: Dan Brotsky <dbrotsky@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:47:50 -0500
- To: "Dylan Barrell" <dbarrell@opentext.com>
- Cc: "Greg Stein" <gstein@lyra.org>, "John Glavin" <john@riverfrontsoftware.com>, <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
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