On Monday 20 August 2001 22:33, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> > > This has come up on the dav-dev list. As far as MS DAV clients are
> > > concerned, the User-Agent can be used to know whether or not it
> > > respects that setting. Of course, in order to do proper conversion when
> > > it doesn't respect it you still need to know the local encoding that it
> > > uses.
>
> Note this issue appears very specifically to;
>
> User-Agent: Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1
>
> Which never observes the "Always send URL as UTF8" setting.  Any further
> observations are greatly appreciated

It's worse in the case of IE because while I'm certain it's the very same 
component that got updated between DAV 1.1 and the version that works, IE 
itself doesn't change its user agent string. Thanks to this, you can have two 
perfectly identical versions of IE that don't have the same bugs...

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