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Re: RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:01:05 -0500

> > Encoding still is a hard problem but I can't accept that Ignorance was 
the
> > cause of it missing from the HTTP specs.

Nobody really questioned the belief that "netascii" was required for 
maximum interop.

You want to call that Ignorance, go ahead.  I'd just say "we didn't know."

        /r$

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