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

2009-07-24 01:50:55
Noah Slater 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?
...

The encoding is restricted by HTTP, thus, depending how you read RFC2616, to ASCII or ISO-88591-1 at best.

That's why an extension mechanism is needed anyway; the draft uses RFC2231-based encoding.

BR, Julian
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