But the funny thing is that ASCII wasnt what the browsers and servers actually implemented typically it was ISO-8859-1
Oh well the past is the past.
Now we just have to pile on higher to reach higher
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David A. Lee
http://www.xmlsh.org
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From: Tei [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication
On 1 February 2012 13:08, David Lee <> wrote:
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>
> Encoding still is a hard problem but I can't accept that Ignorance was the
> cause of it missing from the HTTP specs.
>
Using ascii was a adecuate solution. Solved the problem at the time,
for the people that needed a solution. Maybe not for everyone forever,
but that can be solved by new protocols.
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