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Accept-Charset: Character sets that are acceptable. Accept-Charset: utf-8: Permanent RFC 9110: Accept-Datetime: Acceptable version in time. Accept-Datetime: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:35:00 GMT: Provisional RFC 7089: Accept-Encoding: List of acceptable encodings. See HTTP compression. Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate: Permanent RFC 9110: Accept-Language
As of HTML5 the recommended charset is UTF-8. [3] An "encoding sniffing algorithm" is defined in the specification to determine the character encoding of the document based on multiple sources of input, including: Explicit user instruction; An explicit meta tag within the first 1024 bytes of the document
An optional base64 extension base64, separated from the preceding part by a semicolon. When present, this indicates that the data content of the URI is binary data , encoded in ASCII format using the Base64 scheme for binary-to-text encoding .
Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes. [1] The meta element has two uses: either to emulate the use of an HTTP response header field, or to embed additional metadata within the HTML document. With HTML up to and including HTML 4.01 and ...
For UTF-8, the BOM is optional, while it is a must for the UTF-16 and the UTF-32 encodings. (Note: UTF-16 and UTF-32 without the BOM are formally known under different names, they are different encodings, and thus needs some form of encoding declaration – see UTF-16BE , UTF-16LE , UTF-32LE and UTF-32BE .)
The resulting string is encoded into an octet sequence. The character set to use for this encoding is by default unspecified, as long as it is compatible with US-ASCII, but the server may suggest the use of UTF-8 by sending the charset parameter. [9] The resulting string is encoded using a variant of Base64 (+/ and with padding).
In contrast, basic access authentication uses the easily reversible Base64 encoding instead of hashing, making it non-secure unless used in conjunction with TLS. Technically, digest authentication is an application of cryptographic hashing with usage of nonce values to prevent replay attacks .
The UTF-5 proposal used a base 32 encoding, where Punycode is (among other things, and not exactly) a base 36 encoding. The name UTF-5 for a code unit of 5 bits is explained by the equation 2 5 = 32. [4] The UTF-6 proposal added a running length encoding to UTF-5, here 6 simply stands for UTF-5 plus 1. [5]