On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > Note that Firefox adds the charset even if it wasn't set by the page because > web developers were asking for it to aid server-side processing... The > alternative is that the server has no idea what to do with the data. :(
Does that include cases though where the page did set a Content-Type through setRequestHeader()? Because technically what Firefox does violates HTTP semantics as not every MIME type allows for a charset parameter. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/