Ian Hickson wrote:
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And, why is it limited to ASCII instead of UTF-8?
Because the HTTP working group refuse to allow UTF-8 in HTTP headers for
reasons that I don't really understand, and the handshake is supposed to
be valid HTTP.
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A change of the default encoding would be incompatible with HTTP/1.1.
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
There isn't a good reason to disallow control characters in a *name*????
Not as far as I can tell, no... what would a good reason be?
Consistency with every other single spec on the planet with respect to
names?
Best regards, Julian
