how Windows browsers encode URL [Re: why the % cruft?]

[Vadim Plessky]

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 7:29 am, Toshitaka Fujioka wrote:
|  On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:37, Vadim Plessky wrote:
|  > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 11:15 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:
|  > |  On Tuesday 09 July 2002 12:01 am, Lars Knoll wrote:
|  > |  > > URLs are spec'ed as a sequence of octets (8-bit values) "Unicode
|  > |  > > URLs" basically don't exist. Despite that we try to handle them
|  > |  > > anyway and appearantly that doesn't always work. (E.g. we need to
|  > |  > > convert unicode to an 8 bit sequence before we can tranfer it to
|  > |  > > the website but the encoding to use for that is unspecified, so
|  > |  > > we can only guess.)
|  > |  >
|  > |  > As Dirk already pointed out, IE sends URLS in utf8 by default. I'm
|  > |  > pretty sure we could do the same without breaking a lot of web
|  > |  > pages (they'd be broken with IE aswell). Maybe there's an HTTP
|  > |  > header field we can set to indicate this?
|  > |
|  > |  My impression was that many non-latin1 (e.g. russian, japanese,
|  > | korean, etc.) websites use the "local locale" as encoding and not
|  > | utf8. Maybe Vadim can comment on that from the Russian point of view.
|
|  [snip]
|
|  > So, it seems it's rather safe to encode URL to UTF8, as it's common
|  > pratice and acepted not only by MS IE, but by Mozilla aswell.
|
|  Please change Change Browser Identification or User Agent.
|  e.g. Mozilla M18n on Windows NT 4.0 or Gecko/20000110 or compatible; MSIE
| 6.0
|
|  then you get a result same as Mozilla or IE 6.0.

Bahh!..
You are right.
With MS IE5 UserAgent, I have on Google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80
So, problem is in userAgent identification area, not in KURL?..
// Ihate idea to fake as MS IE5 on Google, there should be another solution. 
But thanks for the tip!

P.S. do you have similar solution for IMAP folder names?
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