Allow specific character encoding for the request body

[haf]

Allow specific character encoding for the request body

[ovatsus]

Why is windows-1252 the default and not utf8?

[relentless]

It was just what was used on wherever I got that code from in the first place (MSDN or something). I'll think about it properly when this issue gets implemented. The response defaults to ISO-8859-1, which from what I understand is the HTTP 1.1 default, so I guess it would be that or UTF-8. I take it you think UTF-8's the way to go?

[ovatsus]

I always saw UTF8 used everywhere, but it's possible it's not the correct default, just wondering if you found that in any http spec, I couldn't find any info

[relentless]

In http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt, sections 3.7.1 & 14.2 discuss ISO-8859-1 being the default encoding text-based types, but that's about the response. I can't see the request body specifically mentioned.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/708942/368134 says the default for a POST body is ISO-8859-1, although I couldn't see that in either of the resources he linked to. So I'm really not sure. Let me know if you find anything definitive!

A related point, while the HTTP specs state accept-charset 'can be used to indicate what character sets are acceptable for the response', the HTML 4.01 specs (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-accept-charset) states 'This attribute specifies the list of character encodings for input data that is accepted by the server processing this form.'

[relentless]

added withBodyEncoded