> 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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