Re: draft-montenegro-httpbis-uri-encoding

On 2014-03-21 08:59, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> ...
>> My concerns are the same as when this was presented first: how does this
>> help?
>>
>> I hear that it makes security checks more reliable, but then, you can't
>> rely on the header field being accurate
>
> There is a difference between working in heuristics mode all the time with
> crossed fingers and rabbit legs and working in deterministic mode with
> simple error handling (and error handling can be abort when what the other
> node declares and what you receive are different – much more secure than
> generalized guesswork)

So how *exactly* does the header field help you in deciding whether to 
be in heuristics mode or not?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 21 March 2014 08:14:05 UTC