- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:45:34 +1300
- To: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:46:47 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: > > We're trying to find some structure in HTTP header field syntax, see > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/wiki/HeaderFieldTypes> > for > the work-in-progress. > That list of ABNF is missing the pattern that could be called "quoted-blob" or such. Things which appear superficially to have the syntax of quoted-string but exclude the quoted-pair (or failed to spec escaping entirely, with the same end result). ie the string portion may contain bare \ characters which will break attempts to use a quoted-string parser on it. Examples for this can be found in the new ETag ABNF from HTTPbis and the path= parameter of Digest authentication. Possibly elsewhere I have not run into yet. AYJ
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