- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:05:00 +0100
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- CC: Jeff Walden <jwalden@MIT.EDU>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > On 18 Dec 2008, at 19:49, Julian Reschke wrote: > >>> Alternately, making it clear that leading zeroes are allowed but >>> (perhaps) MUST NOT be sent would be acceptable. >> >> How would that help? As far as I can tell, leading zeros are totally >> harmless. > > If that's the case, why are they MUST NOT in the case of HTTP-Version? I can only guess it's because recipients have treated the version as string in the past, and tripped over things like 01/01. So yes, if there's a demonstrated interop problem with leading zeros somewhere else, that may change the picture. So again: any evidence of that? BR, Julian
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