Re: ISSUE: header length limit with encoded words

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i63

On 14/05/2007, at 9:33 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>   RFC 2616 defines RFC 2047 MIME word encoding for use with certain
> header values, e.g. if they are defined to contain quoted strings.
> RFC 2047 states:
>
>   While there is no limit to the length of a multiple-line header
>   field, each line of a header field that contains one or more
>   'encoded-word's is limited to 76 characters.
>
>   The length restrictions are included both to ease interoperability
>   through internetwork mail gateways, and to impose a limit on the
>   amount of lookahead a header parser must employ (while looking for
>   a final ?= delimiter) before it can decide whether a token is an
>   "encoded-word" or something else.
>
> It seems to me this provision is not meant to apply to HTTP, and if
> MIME word encoding is to stay with us in the next HTTP specification,
> it should state that this line length limit does not apply to HTTP.
>
> regards,
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