Re: comments in HTTP headers

> At 6:23 PM 4/17/95, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> >> Section 4.2 has a definition of ctext that differs from RFC 822,
> >> which also allows \ escapes of ( and ).
> 
> I must've been asleep when this topic first came up. Of what possible use
> are comments in HTTP headers? I'd like to understand why big parser changes
> are going to be needed for something that *seems* to be of no value to the
> client or the server.

I suppose some of the value is in making the specification agree more
with MIME and USENET so that shared code and cross-protocol gateways
work more transparently. I really doubt we _need_ the full glory
of RFC822 comments most of the time. 

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    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu