Re: Bug#257775: AddDefaultCharset default setting is misleading

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

Hi Marc,

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, [utf-8] Marc Dequènes wrote:

>
> Package: apache
> Severity: minor
>
> Coin,
>
> Default setting is on by default, so apache force a specific
> encoding. Most users, and some not complete newbie, are unable to
> understand why their site is not working as expected, and some (kov) may
> wonder why their browser is not rendering it properly.
>
> As activating this setting is pretty much unuseful for a large majority
> of users, i suggest deactivating it in future release.

This thing has been discussed over and over. This is the last reference to
it:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211889&archive=yes

Since setting AddDefaultCharset off can imply security problem we will
never switch it to off. For more information please check the previous URL
and the apache documentation on httpd.apache.org

Thanks
Fabio

PS I am closing this bug.

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