- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:10:45 +0000
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 20 Nov 2007, at 21:54, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > It's up to the implementer omho. Implementation detail on how to > behave when > seeing things outside specifications. I strongly disagree — as an implementer, I want to be able to implement HTTP in such a way that it works in the real world (which, in places, relies on totally unspecified behaviour found in browsers) by just reading the spec. If RFC2616bis doesn't address this, other documentation on this will likely appear scattered over the web outwith the HTTP spec. If I cannot just implement HTTP from the spec in such a way that is interoperable with real-world servers, then IMHO the spec is too vague and I have to waste my time reverse-engineering other implementations (likely still not in a way 100% interoperable with real-world servers). -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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