From: Ricardo Amorim <mksm@...>
Date: 2011-11-25T00:54:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41289] [ruby-trunk - Feature #2567] Net::HTTP does not handle encoding correctly


Issue #2567 has been updated by Ricardo Amorim.


Yui NARUSE wrote:
> Is such a string always ISO-8859-1 other than non US/West Europe?

Yes, ISO-8859-1 always fits. I'm mainly accessing Brazilian servers so that explains.

> The sentence seems to talk about fields which allow non ASCII but usually
> use only ASCII. So Location is also on this context.
> And the encoding for "opaque data" should be ASCII-8BIT.

With some more research, I got to this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2396, topic 2.1.

So, I think you are correct. When the URI is decoded into an octet stream the correct encoding is unknown and has no default. Looks like ASCII-8BIT is the best choice but certainly people WILL have issues when redirecting to non US-ASCII URL's.
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Feature #2567: Net::HTTP does not handle encoding correctly
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/2567

Author: Ryan Sims
Status: Assigned
Priority: Low
Assignee: Yui NARUSE
Category: lib
Target version: 2.0.0
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i686-linux]


=begin
 A string returned by an HTTP get does not have its encoding set appropriately with the charset field, nor does the content_type report the charset. Example code demonstrating incorrect behavior is below.
 
 #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
 # encoding: UTF-8
 
 require 'net/http'
 
 uri = URI.parse('http://www.hearya.com/feed/')
 result = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) {|http|
     http.get(uri.request_uri)
 }
 
 p result['content-type']     # "text/xml; charset=UTF-8" <- correct
 p result.content_type        # "text/xml" <- incorrect; truncates the charset field
 puts result.body.encoding    # ASCII-8BIT <- incorrect encoding, should be UTF-8
=end



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