- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:43:26 +1300
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 13/03/2017 1:10 p.m., Martin Thomson wrote: > On 12 March 2017 at 04:42, Julian Reschke wrote: >> As far as I can tell, the reference RFC7515 can be moved to informative; >> it's only needed to define base64url for examples. > > Ack, done in the editor's copy. > If that is the only reason, why not use *actual* base64url as defined in RFC 4648? The statement "Base64url encoding is defined in Section 2 of [RFC7515]." is a lie anyway. RFC 7515 simply adds some JSON-centric restrictions to the RFC 4648 definition. Which do not seem particularly relevant to HTTP headers. That would move the reference to RFC 4648 and get one step further away from JSON abominations. People are free to use the JSON sub-set on what they send - that sis valid base64url, so long as they accept and discard the '=' padding from those who dont use JSON encoders. Amos
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