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  • From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>
  • To: "'Tei'" <oscar.vives@g...>, <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:53:51 -0500

But the funny thing is that ASCII wasnt what the browsers and servers actually implemented typically it was ISO-8859-1

Oh well the past is the past.
Now we just have to pile on higher to reach higher


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David A. Lee
dlee@c...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tei [mailto:oscar.vives@g...] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:44 AM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication


On 1 February 2012 13:08, David Lee <dlee@c...> wrote:
...
>
> Encoding still is a hard problem but I can't accept that Ignorance was the
> cause of it missing from the HTTP specs.
>

Using ascii was a adecuate solution. Solved the problem at the time,
for the people that needed a solution. Maybe not for everyone forever,
but that can be solved by new protocols.




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