HTTP headers encoding/decoding in Java

Question

A custom HTTP header is being passed to a Servlet application for authentication purposes. The header value must be able to contain accents and other non-ASCII characters, s

Answer 1

The HTTPbis working group is aware of the issue, and the latest drafts get rid of all the language with respect to TEXT and RFC 2047 encoding -- it is not used in practice over HTTP.

See http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/74 for the whole story.