On 10/19/2011 01:45 PM, Jochen Roderburg wrote: > On 2011-10-19, Jens Hatlak <j...@junetz.de> wrote: >> Jochen Roderburg wrote: >>> The current beta versions of our Mozilla applications (Firefox 8 / Seamonkey >>> 2.5) do not send the HTTP Accept-Charset header any longer. >>> This confuses e.g. our Webmail system (Horde/IMP) which uses this header (if >>> available) to determine if the browser can handle UTF-8. >>> >>> Does anybody know if there is a rationale behind this change >>> or is this perhaps "just a plain bug"? >> >> AFAICS it was removed because it allows fingerprinting, and is not >> supported by IE (or all other browsers?). Please note that I did nothing >> more than read the initial comment of the following bug; please have a >> read yourself for more information. Please also note that this was a >> platform change, i.e. nothing was changed for SM in particular but all >> Gecko-based applications. >> >><https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572652> >> > > Thanks for the pointer, I'll have a look at it. > > Strange, that I didn't find this by searching for Accept-Charset in > Bugzilla. > > J.Roderburg
Interesting results from different browsers (linux): http://www.delorie.com:81/some/url.txt SeaMonkey: GET /some/url.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: www.delorie.com:81 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111012 Firefox/8.0 SeaMonkey/2.5 Lightning/1.0b8pre Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate DNT: 1 Connection: keep-alive Chromium: GET /some/url.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: www.delorie.com:81 Connection: keep-alive User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.10 Chromium/14.0.835.202 Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 Google Chrome: GET /some/url.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: www.delorie.com:81 Connection: keep-alive User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 Accept-Charset: UTF-8,*;q=0.5 Opera: GET /some/url.txt HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.52 Host: www.delorie.com:81 Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/webp, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: Keep-Alive Firefox: GET /some/url.txt HTTP/1.1 Host: www.delorie.com:81 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Connection: keep-alive _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
