The default charset of text/* media type is UTF-8.

Thanks for the patch  gareth (Gareth Adams).  [Bug #15933]

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Combines two small, but very related changes

1: Treat HTTPS the same as HTTP

Previously, OpenURI followed guidance in RFC2616/3.7.1:

> When no explicit charset parameter is provided by the sender, media
> subtypes of the "text" type are defined to have a default charset
> value of "ISO-8859-1" when received via HTTP.

However this RFC was written before TLS was established and OpenURI was
never updated to treat HTTPS traffic the same way. So, HTTPS documents
received a different default to HTTP documents.

This commit removes the scheme check so that all text/* documents
processed by OpenURI are treated the same way.

In theory this processing gets applied to FTP URIs too, but there's no
mechanism in OpenURI for FTP documents to have Content-Type metadata
appended to them, so this ends up being a no-op.

2: Change default charset for text/* to UTF-8

Replaces the default ISO-8859-1 charset previously defined in RFC2616 (now
obsoleted) with a UTF-8 charset as defined in RFC6838.

Fixes: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15933

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 390c793592..31f48984b5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -212,7 +212,10 @@ Net::IMAP::
 open-uri::
 
   * Warn open-uri's "open" method at Kernel.
-    Use URI.open instead.
+    Use URI.open instead.  [Misc #15893]
+
+  * The default charset of text/* media type is UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1.
+    [Bug #15933]
 
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