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> only it never succeeds.  For example, with a header like

> ,----
> | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
> `----

This is not an HTTP header.  It is an HTML (XML? SGML?) header, so it
would need to be interpreted not by the URL library but by the user of
that HTML data.

> it could only find out "text/html", completely missing "charset" value.
> It looks like the final header detecting job is fallen on
> mm-decode.el. Maybe mm-decode.el's fault?

Could be.  Not sure where mm-decode comes into the picture, I guess that
was in a part of the thread that I missed.


        Stefan