On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Terje Bless wrote: > Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk> wrote: > > >Would it be possible to standardise a Content-Type: > >text/whatever-it-says-dude where the server explicitly hands over > >encoding assignation to the document and its meta tags? > > > >Such a Content-Type: would work well if used for browser uploads. > > Everything is possible of course, but given that you have a charset > override option in the form I don't really see the point. I ws thinking of this as a generic get-out for the Content-Type: META tag dilemma. A server should able to explicitly tell a client to obey the stuff in the page. L. > If this ends up > being a big problem we may have to make special allowances for file > uploads; or perhaps add caching of file uploads so it's easier to > revalidate with a charset override if necessary. <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>Received on Friday, 8 November 2002 16:48:30 UTC
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