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Header is send with illegal utf-8 characters

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Using http-server on a system with a German local produces headers with illegal utf-8 characters that are not accepted by some clients:

844424930447543-225-Fri Aug 28 2015 15:15:33 GMT+0200 (Mitteleurop�ische Sommerzeit)

The � character is actually an ä.

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

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rowi1decommented, Sep 27, 2016

Can we make Headers.Builder addLenient public please? There may be some backends that support this, even if it’s not RFC-Conform I have to communicate with these legacy services.

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thornjadcommented, Dec 18, 2019

No problem! Yeah I’m trying to clean up all these old issues. I’m going to close for now, anyone who sees this again with an up-to-date http-server, please re-open right away!

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