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Re: [PATCH 7/9] remote-curl: recognize text/plain with a charset parameter

From
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
May 22, 2014, 10:19 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.00.1405221118150.10958@ds9.cixit.se>
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Jeff King:
> I was really hoping to avoid getting into all of the real-world
> messiness that a real http client needs to deal with (as opposed to just
> following the standards).

Yeah, I agree, you're probably fine without all this detail in over 99% of the cases where this code would ever be exposed. I'm a bit damaged after 10+ years as a web browser developer, responsible for exactly this kind of stuff... :-)

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\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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Message 24 of 42 in “handle alternate charsets for remote http errors”
  1. 0/9 handle alternate charsets for remote http errorsJeff King, May 21, 2014
  2. 1/9 test-lib: preserve GIT_CURL_VERBOSE from the environmentJeff King, May 21, 2014
  3. 2/9 strbuf: add strbuf_tolower functionJeff King, May 21, 2014
  4. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  5. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2014
  7. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2014
  9. Jeff KingMay 23, 2014
  10. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  11. Jeff KingMay 23, 2014
  12. Kyle J. McKayMay 23, 2014
  13. 3/9 daemon/config: factor out duplicate xstrdup_tolowerJeff King, May 21, 2014
  14. 4/9 http: normalize case of returned content-typeJeff King, May 21, 2014
  15. 5/9 t/lib-httpd: use write_script to copy CGI scriptsJeff King, May 21, 2014
  16. 6/9 t5550: test display of remote http error messagesJeff King, May 21, 2014
  17. 7/9 remote-curl: recognize text/plain with a charset parameterJeff King, May 21, 2014
  18. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  19. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  20. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  21. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  22. Peter KreftingMay 22, 2014
  23. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  24. Peter KreftingMay 22, 2014
  25. 8/9 strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helperJeff King, May 21, 2014
  26. 9/9 remote-curl: reencode http error messagesJeff King, May 21, 2014
  27. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  28. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  29. Peter KreftingMay 22, 2014
  30. 0/9 handle alternate charsets for remote http errorsJeff King, May 22, 2014
  31. 1/8 test-lib: preserve GIT_CURL_VERBOSE from the environmentJeff King, May 22, 2014
  32. 2/8 t/lib-httpd: use write_script to copy CGI scriptsJeff King, May 22, 2014
  33. 3/8 t5550: test display of remote http error messagesJeff King, May 22, 2014
  34. 4/8 http: extract type/subtype portion of content-typeJeff King, May 22, 2014
  35. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  36. Jeff KingMay 23, 2014
  37. Kyle J. McKayMay 23, 2014
  38. 5/8 http: optionally extract charset parameter from content-typeJeff King, May 22, 2014
  39. 6/8 strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helperJeff King, May 22, 2014
  40. 7/8 remote-curl: reencode http error messagesJeff King, May 22, 2014
  41. 8/8 http: default text charset to iso-8859-1Jeff King, May 22, 2014
  42. brian m. carlsonMay 23, 2014

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