[Zope-dev] [ZPublisher] specifiying 'charset' for the content-type header

[Andreas Jung]

--On 21. Dezember 2005 18:07:49 +0000 Chris Withers 
<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>
> How will Zope know when _not_ to add the content-type header?

Makes no sense to me. Either the application set the content-type header or 
Zope does it for you. Check HTTPResponse.py.

>
> How will Zope tell if the charset is "undefined" and what does
> "undefined" mean in this context?

The HTTP spec says that a http server *can* set the charset to make the 
encoding of the payload clear. That's what we are doing now. Not specifying 
the charset means for the browser: *guessing* the encoding which means the 
browser defaults to some unspecified default encoding.

-aj
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