Accept-Charset
Warning: Do not use this header. Browsers omit this header and servers should ignore it.
The Accept-Charset request HTTP header was a header that advertised a client's supported character encodings. It is no longer widely used.
UTF-8 is well-supported and the overwhelmingly preferred choice for character encoding. To guarantee better privacy through less configuration-based entropy, all browsers omit the Accept-Charset header. Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari abandoned this header.
Today, Accept-Charset is most notable for being one of several forbidden header names.
| Header type | Request header |
|---|---|
| Forbidden header name | yes |
See also
- HTTP content negotiation
- Accept-Charset is no more
- Header with the result of the content negotiation:
Content-Type - Other similar headers:
TE,Accept-Encoding,Accept-Language,Accept