Re: Firefox 3 beta 5 - when sending XMLHTTPRequest, content-type request header is forced to ISO-8859-1 encoding instead of UTF-8

Jean-Marc Desperrier <[email protected]> Tue, 06 May 2008 11:26:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> I'm having problems with Firefox 3 beta 5 when sending UTF-8
> characters via an XMLHTTPRequest.
>
> I have read the following page: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XMLHttpRequest
> which states:
> Note: Versions of Firefox prior to version 3 always send the request
> using UTF-8 encoding; Firefox 3 properly sends the document using the
> encoding specified by data.xmlEncoding, or UTF-8 if no encoding is
> specified.  [...]

bz has updated this page (maybe after reading this message) to correct 
it, it's data.inputEncoding that is used.

This is also what the current w3c draft says :
http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/