- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:49:25 +0100
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- CC: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 04.03.2010 09:17, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> Note: >> >> If a header field is absent from a request, it can only match another >> request if it is also absent there. >> >> Is that still true? I don't think; maybe we can remove the sentence completely? > > Yes, it is still true. > > Accept: > > means accept nothing (give me a 300 instead). No Accept header means > accept everything. I do agree for "Accept". But a header *could* have a normalization behaviour, where the presence of an empty header and the absence of the header field have the same semantics. (Not a good idea, probably, but that doesn't matter here). In that case, a header-field specific normalization should allow to treat them as matching, no? Best regards, Julian
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