- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:10:49 +0100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2013-10-28 15:44, Julian Reschke wrote: > Hi there, > > in > <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg10646.html>, > SM notices: > >> In Section 5.5.1: >> >> 'The "From" header field contains an Internet email address for a >> human user who controls the requesting user agent. The address ought >> to be machine-usable, as defined by "mailbox" in Section 3.4 of >> [RFC5322]:' >> >> The above text is similar to text which was in RFC 2068 and RFC 2616. >> The "mailbox" may also contain a display name whereas the "addr-spec" >> (see Section 3.4.1) is an Internet mail address. I listed this issue >> as minor to flag it for the attention of the HTTPbis Working Group. > > So while updating the reference for "mailbox" in > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/133>, we actually > changed the definition to include name-addr > (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.4>) > >> mailbox = name-addr / addr-spec >> >> name-addr = [display-name] angle-addr > > I don't think we (ahem, I) intended that change, so I propose to change > the definition in P2 from: > >> From = mailbox >> >> mailbox = <mailbox, defined in [RFC5322], Section 3.4> > > to > >> From = addr-spec >> >> addr-spec = <addr-spec, defined in [RFC5322], Section 3.4.1> > > Feedback appreciated, > > Julian Proposed patch: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/504/504.diff> Best regards, Julian
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