Re: Please clarify * is legal in HTTP1/1 Accept-Charset Header

Martin,

I would prefer not to bundle the ACCEPT-CHARSET * clarification with
other issues where there is less consensus. I am still hoping that
Koen can simply introduce this into the next revision without having to
go through an RFC.

Jürgen.



Martin J. Duerst wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Koen Holtman wrote:
> 
> > Accept-Charset has no wildcard in 1.1 because of an oversight, not because
> > the http-wg had a long discussion in which it was decided to omit it.  I
> > think a strong case can be made for adding the wildcard in the next revision
> > of the HTTP/1.1 specification (which will be in 4 months I think).  Someone
> > would have to write a small internet draft to make this happen.
> 
> Writing an internet draft to document the problems surrounding
> internationalization in the current draft has been suggested as
> a conclusion to other discussions. At present, I count 6 issues,
> of course not all of them with equal degree of consensus.
> 
> I would be willing to write them together as an internet-draft;
> anybody willing to help??? Anybody afraid of me writing this
> draft, because I have my own oppinion on certain issues?
> I would prefer to limit the discussion to http-wg, because this
> is most directly concerned, and I don't want to get the same
> mail more than two times. A preliminary title would be
> draft-ietf-http-i18n-issues-00.txt. Does anybody have any
> better idea?
> 
> Regards,        Martin.

Received on Monday, 13 January 1997 12:14:35 UTC