[Bug 16297] combining multiple author request headers

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16297

--- Comment #3 from Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> 2012-03-10 19:34:20 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Setting a header multiple times when the header syntax does not allow this is a
> > case of "garbage in garbage out", so this is fine.
> > 
> > Optimally, there were ways to remove headers, so the caller can make sure that
> > it doesn't set a header twice when it doesn't want to.
> 
> are you agreeing with me to have the application code handle this rather than
> the UA? or are you suggesting the UA should implement the "combine" function as
> currently specified, and that the results are indeterminate?

Neither.

I don't think the results are indeterminate. They may be *undesirable* in some
cases, but that's a different problem.

The core problem is not this rule, but the lack of control for the caller (who
should be able to reliably *replace* a header field). This issue has been
raised again and again, but we still have no API for that.

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Received on Saturday, 10 March 2012 19:34:22 UTC