[Web-SIG] Output header encodings? (was Re: Backup plan: WSGI 1 Addenda and wsgiref update for Py3)

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:48 PM 9/23/2010 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>It only fixes the one case of non-Latin1 characters, there are still 
>many other values you can put into a header (a newline or control 
>character for instance), and innumerable header-specific 
>issues.  It seems to be adding complexity for one of the least 
>problematic cases.

Ok, you found one that convinces me.  ;-)  "Headers are text, bodies 
are bytes" shall be the rule.  I'll rewrite the "note about string 
types" and change the way I'm updating the spec accordingly.