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Leonardo
Leonardo

Reputation: 11387

Chrome/Safari/Edge/Postman Http Header very strange behaviour

The code that responds to a request is the following:

return new HttpStatusCodeResult(ex.Detail.HttpStatusCode, ex.Detail.ReasonPhrase);
Response.AddHeader("X-Status", ex.Detail.ReasonPhrase);

The funny thing here is that, on the browser/client, when there's a special char involved (such as ç or é) the reason phrase renders as expected, but the X-Status does NOT!!!

here's a screenshot for the non-believers enter image description here

I've tested a uncountable number of encoding combinations but none worked... the X-Status just fails...

I have to use the X-Status custom header because Safari overrides whatever message comes with the StatusText...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 245

Answers (1)

Julian Reschke
Julian Reschke

Reputation: 41997

The HTTP specification does not define a character encoding for header fields or the status line (well, not beyond US-ASCII). If you need non-ASCII characters, you're on your own. One reliable way is to percent-encode, for instance.

Also note that HTTP/2 doesn't have a status line, thus trying to use that to return information is a non-starter anyway.

Upvotes: 1

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