Re: [apps-discuss] Question regarding RFC 7303

[[e-mail] (Henry S. Thompson)]

Stefan Cordes writes:

> Hi,
> with https://github.com/mulesoft/apikit/pull/88#issuecomment-231617946
> we came in some discussions about
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7303#section-3.2
>
> where sometimes the "MIME Content-Type header" is ignored ( 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7303#section-8.9 )
>  and sometimes the "XML encoding declaration" is ignored ( 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7303#section-8.8 )

Yes, it's complicated and not completely ideal.

> Sounds to me a little bit unclear:
>
> Transport does not touch characters in the body in case a "BOM" is 
> available?
> Transport converts all characters in the body to "MIME Content-Type" when 
> receiving ?

Not sure what you mean by 'transport' here...

> Especially scenario 8.8 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7303#section-8.8 
> seems not to work, as
> base64 transport does not change anything in the xml-body and gives all 
> the characters as they were sent into the DocumentBuilder.parse(...).
>
>
> So in my point of view the "MIME Content-Type header" should be ignored in 
> all cases for "application/xml".

Could you be a bit more specific as to what your actual question is?

Thanks,

ht
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