I’m writing a tiny HTTP server using C++ (just for fun).
When receiving request from a client, should I worry about charset of HTTP headers? Is it guaranteed that all of them constist only of one-byte ASCII characters?
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I’m writing a tiny HTTP server using C++ (just for fun).
When receiving request from a client, should I worry about charset of HTTP headers? Is it guaranteed that all of them constist only of one-byte ASCII characters?
That’s a great question and I don’t know but would like to. I believe you will find the answer here: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
That doc says that Headers follow RFC822 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt) and that one says ASCII. I’m thinking that you can rely upon the ASCIIness of it all.