Re: [apps-discuss] Feedback on multipart/form-data

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Thu, 19 September 2013 13:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Feedback on multipart/form-data
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Julian Reschke wrote:
>>  
>>     I know of RFC 2047 and RFC 2231, as well as unencoded UTF-8 and
>>     unencoded ISO-8859-1 (I think).
>
> No surprise here

Yes, but one wonders if the unencoded UTF-8 actually does any harm at all in a 
8bit/binary-safe protocol like HTTP.

If most processors accept this - and I have no idea - it might even be useful 
to document.

Dave.

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