- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:05:19 +1100
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 30/10/2011, at 1:29 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Couldn't we suggest that new schemes must use semi-colon instead ? > After all, existing parsers will have to be extended to support new > schemes anyway, so making them support a more reliable syntax makes > sense. Not necessarily; an implementation can (and should be able to) use a generic parser no matter what new schemes are introduced. Also, if a non-upgraded parser gets a message with multiple challenges in it, it could get confused by this. To be clear -- I'm no fan of the current syntax, but we need to be *extremely* careful to make sure we don't make the situation worse. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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