- From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:02:29 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Keith Wannamaker <Keith@Wannamaker.org>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Keith Wannamaker wrote:
>
> I have seen a discrepancy in server implementations on
> spacing in the the content-type header.
>
> The example in 2616, 14.17 includes a space between
> the ';' and the parameter, while the grammers in
> 3.6 and 3.7 don't seem to allow this.
>
> Is there some implied whitespace rule here, or should
> there be no space in the 14.17 example?
section 2.1:
implied *LWS
The grammar described by this specification is word-based. Except
where noted otherwise, linear white space (LWS) can be included
between any two adjacent words (token or quoted-string), and
between adjacent words and separators, without changing the
interpretation of a field. At least one delimiter (LWS and/or
separators) MUST exist between any two tokens (for the definition
of "token" below), since they would otherwise be interpreted as a
single token.
Received on Tuesday, 4 June 2002 22:03:06 UTC