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Re: i93: Repeating Single-value headers

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:36:00 +0100
Message-ID: <47753400.4090605@gmx.de>
To: Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org> 

Henrik Nordström wrote:
> fre 2007-12-28 klockan 17:19 +0100 skrev Julian Reschke:
> 
>> Hm. Do you really think it's SHOULD NOT, not MUST NOT?
> 
> My starting point is SHOULD NOT for anything which does not cause
> immediate interoperability breakage.
> 
> If diskussions find that violating this is really harmful, not only
> slightly confusing to the unsuspecting then upgrade the criteria to MUST
> NOT.
> 
> It depends a bit on what the wording regarding error handling will be.

Well, if conflicting information in Content-Length headers doesn't cause 
interop problems, what will?

BR, Julian
Received on Friday, 28 December 2007 17:36:31 GMT

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