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diff --git a/doc/api/http.md b/doc/api/http.md index 86234e2fef8..d551b588c8f 100644 --- a/doc/api/http.md +++ b/doc/api/http.md @@ -987,6 +987,17 @@ or request.setHeader('Cookie', ['type=ninja', 'language=javascript']); ``` +When the value is a string an exception will be thrown if it contains +characters outside the `latin1` encoding. + +If you need to pass UTF-8 characters in the value please encode the value +using the [RFC 8187][] standard. + +```js +const filename = 'Rock 🎵.txt'; +request.setHeader('Content-Disposition', `attachment; filename*=utf-8''${encodeURIComponent(filename)}`); +``` + ### `request.setNoDelay([noDelay])` <!-- YAML @@ -3406,6 +3417,7 @@ try { } ``` +[RFC 8187]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8187.txt [`'checkContinue'`]: #event-checkcontinue [`'finish'`]: #event-finish [`'request'`]: #event-request |