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> Assumption: Many systems (modulo email) are 8-bit clean nowadays. Your assumption is flawed. Most of the 'systems' that were not 8-bit clean (and resulted i
by pwg 7y ago
> Assumption: Many systems (modulo email) are 8-bit clean nowadays.
Your assumption is flawed. Most of the 'systems' that were not 8-bit clean (and resulted in the various 'encodings' being required) remain just as 'not 8-bit clean' today as they were then.
- mcqueenjordan 7y agoFollow-up: Is it worth investigating changing that? e.g. an RFC for 8-bit clean HTTP cookies.
- tony-allan 7y agoI'm not sure how you would get every HTTP/Cookie library to correctly follow a new RFC. There is a lot of software out there that is old and not well maintained that will still be around in another decade. I haven't read the HTTP/2 RFC's but with any luck they are 8-bit clean, which would be progress.
- wmf 7y agoHTTP/2 and /3 tried not to change semantics so that you can losslessly translate between different versions.