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Bug 10131 - Please make it clear that Last-Event-ID has a value that consists of UTF-8 octets. HTTP headers do not have strings.
Summary: Please make it clear that Last-Event-ID has a value that consists of UTF-8 oc...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HISTORICAL - Server-Sent Events (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-07-11 10:40 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-09-08 06:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-07-11 10:40:16 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#processing-model-4

Comment:
Please make it clear that Last-Event-ID has a value that consists of UTF-8
octets. HTTP headers do not  have strings.

Posted from: 83.85.115.123 by annevk@opera.com
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-07 23:51:45 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-09-07 23:52:15 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5431.
Check-in comment: give the encoding for Last-Event-ID
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5430&to=5431
Comment 3 Julian Reschke 2010-09-08 06:15:35 UTC 
HTTP spec-wise, this is ok. However, it will give surprising results when the header is accessed through a standard API, which will usually default to ISO-8859-1.