* Specify accept-charset on all forms. All recent browsers,
as well as IE5+, will use the encoding specified for form
parameters
* Unfortunately, IE5+ will not look at accept-charset unless
at least one character in the form's values is not in the
page's charset. Since the user can override the default
charset (which Rails sets to UTF-8), we provide a hidden
input containing a unicode character, forcing IE to look
at the accept-charset.
* Now that the vast majority of web input is UTF-8, we set
the inbound parameters to UTF-8. This will eliminate many
cases of incompatible encodings between ASCII-8BIT and
UTF-8.
* You can safely ignore params[:_snowman_]
TODO:
* Validate inbound text to confirm it is UTF-8
* Combine the whole_form implementations in form_helper_test
and form_tag_helper_test
* convert_content_type! is handled by assign_default_content_type_and_charset!
* set_content_length! should be handled by the endpoint server. Otherwise
each middleware that modifies the body has to do the expensive work of
recalculating content_length.
* convert_language! appears to be legacy. There are no tests for this
* convert_cookies! should be handled by the new HeaderHash in Rack
* Use an integer for .status's internal representation to avoid needing to
do String manipulation just to find out the status
Resolved all the conflicts since 2.3.0 -> HEAD. Following is a list
of commits that could not be applied cleanly or are obviated with the
abstract_controller refactor. They all need to be revisited to ensure
that fixes made in 2.3 do not reappear in 3.0:
2259ecf368
AR not available
* This will be reimplemented with ActionORM or equivalent
06182ea02e
implicitly rendering a js response should not use the default layout
[#1844 state:resolved]
* This will be handled generically
893e9eb995
Improve view rendering performance in development mode and reinstate
template recompiling in production [#1909 state:resolved]
* We will need to reimplement rails-dev-boost on top of the refactor;
the changes here are very implementation specific and cannot be
cleanly applied. The following commits are implicated:
199e750d463942cb406ef8ea9f85d4e3b166aab3ae9f258e0344423126c60cb020b4d6
workaround for picking layouts based on wrong view_paths
[#1974 state:resolved]
* The specifics of this commit no longer apply. Since it is a two-line
commit, we will reimplement this change.
8c5cc66a83
make action_controller/layouts pick templates from the current instance's
view_paths instead of the class view_paths [#1974 state:resolved]
* This does not apply at all. It should be trivial to apply the feature
to the reimplemented ActionController::Base.
87e8b16246
fix HTML fallback for explicit templates [#2052 state:resolved]
* There were a number of patches related to this that simply compounded
each other. Basically none of them apply cleanly, and the underlying
issue needs to be revisited. After discussing the underlying problem
with Koz, we will defer these fixes for further discussion.
