Bill Janssen <janssen <at> parc.com> writes: > > Sure. And if HTTP was all about browsers keying off pages, that would > be fine with me. But it's not. HTTP is used in lots of places where > there are no browsers;
I'm sorry, I don't follow you. The fact that something else than a browser makes the request shouldn't change the behaviour on the /server/ side. > It's used in > places where there are no "pages", too, just servers on which clients > are making REST-style calls. So what? The designer of the REST API must mandate an encoding (most probably UTF-8 rather than Latin-1 as you bizarrely seemed to imply) and the problem is solved. Complaining that the RFC doesn't specify all this sounds like an excuse for programmer laziness. Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
