RE: [xml-dev] RE: Encoding charset of HTTP Basic Authentication

[Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>]

My wording wasn't clear enough.

At the time, we all thought "netascii for headers" was the right thing to 
do.  So much so that the question of codesets in headers *never came up.* 
The entire IETF had this mindset, it was a truism, fundamental concept, 
statement of fact, fundamental postulate, etc. It was not "what about 
charset encodings?  Never mind"

I use the pronoun "we" on purpose; 
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec16.html#sec16

        /r$

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