Which encoding is used by the HTTP protocol?

Question

When a browser sends an HTTP request to a web server, what encoding is used to encode the HTTP protocol on the wire? Is it ASCII? UTF8? or UTF16? Or does it specify which en

Answer 1

HTTP 1.1 uses US-ASCII as basic character set for the request line in requests, the status line in responses (except the reason phrase) and the field names but allows any octet in the field values and the message body.