On 9/18/06 10:10 AM, "Yonik Seeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/18/06, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Instead, use a media type of application/xml, so that the server >> is allowed to sniff the content to discover the character encoding. > > Cool! Do you know what servlet containers currently implement this > "sniffing"?
XML parsers already do this correctly. They look at the XML declaration for the encoding, and if that isn't there, they look for a BOM or UTF-8 content, as described in the (non-normative) appendix to the XML spec. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing The servlet container needs to hand the raw bytes to the parser, which should be normal behavior for application/*. wunder -- Walter Underwood Search Guru, Netflix
