Re: [xml-dev] xml over http - RFC 3023

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

> Does this happen in practice?

no idea in a web proxy situation, I expect not, the MIME text/*
transcoding rules though come from an era of email gateways mapping
between all kinds of exotic system and locale specific encodings and
they did and I think do aggressively re-encode text messages to give the
end recipipient a fighting chance of understanding the text.

> In general, the easiest way to avoid these issues is to use 
> application/*xml, which doesn't have the problem with the defaulting.

yes

David

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