RE: PROPOSAL: i74: Encoding for non-ASCII headers

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 18:07 -0700, Robert Brewer wrote:
> > CherryPy implements that (since "opaque-tag = quoted-string").
> > Granted, it's a small project, but when I implemented RFC2047
> > decoding, that was the only "reasonable reading" I arrived at.
> > I must have glossed over the "octet equality" clause for ETag
> > at the time. :/
> 
> 2047 says
> 
>    + An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'.
> 
> and 2616
> 
>       opaque-tag = quoted-string
> 
> So explain to me how seemingly 2047 encoded text in an ETag can be
read
> as an encoded-word?

It can't. I was pointing out that I got it wrong.


Robert Brewer
fumanchu@aminus.org

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2008 21:51:50 UTC