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

[Chris Withers]

Andreas Jung 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.

OK.

>> 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.

Yes, but we're essentially guessing too, right? :-S

Chris

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