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Re: http charset labelling

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Thu, 01 February 1996 03:29 UTC

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It would not require changing any existing specification for someone
to create a web server that interpreted

   http://host.dom/encoding/selector

to mean that 'encoding' was a particular encoding of the given
selector. The web server could even return a 'Location:' header in the
results that would give a canonical encoding, just so as not to
confuse caches.

'encoding' could even be UTF7, for example.

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