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Re: Last Call: draft-nottingham-http-link-header (Web Linking) to Proposed Standard

2009-07-24 01:36:35
Mark Nottingham wrote:
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* Is there a default encoding for parameter values, or in fact any other part of this header. I could not find anything in the draft which would indicate
   there is a default. Could this cause problems?

If they're a token (i.e., unquoted), they're restricted to ASCII in the BNF ( token = *CHAR = octets 0-127).

If it's a quoted-string, it's restricted to ISO-8859-1 unless encoded as per 2047 (like title*) (see RFC2616 section 2.2). However, HTTPbis looks
> ...

Almost. RFC 2047 does not work in parameter values, thus RFC 2231 encoding is needed...

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BR, Julian
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