- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:45:42 +0000
- To: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
- cc: HTTP working group mailing list <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <f641382a-f48a-3c48-df90-a385e78de949@measurement-factory.com>, Alex Rousskov writes: > In draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-01.txt, "integer" is >"identifier": > >> integer = ["-"] 1*19 DIGIT > >> identifier = token [ "/" token ] > >> token = 1*tchar >> tchar = ... / DIGIT / ... > >Does not that contradict the self-identification claim? If it does not, >then what do we mean by "self identification" exactly? "Self-identification" refers to wrapping the entire header in > ... < And yes, in HTTP/1.1 serialization you cannot tell if a particular identifier is a word or a number, you need to definition of the header in question to tell you that, that's the cost of a very concise definition and backwards compatibility with standardized headers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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