- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:43:44 -0500
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>, "'Scott Lawrence'" <lawrence@agranat.com>, Rohit Khare <rohit@bordeaux.ics.uci.edu>, ietf-http-ext@w3.org
At 13:06 1/20/98 PST, Jeffrey Mogul wrote: >I don't see how you can properly parse the Accept-Language >field without at least some buffering. (Not "back-tracking", >but "buffering.") Another (legal although controversial) example is HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Location: overhere.html Content-Type: text/html Content-Base: http://www.newbase.com/ ... In fact, I think most parsers now use lazy parsing in order to avoid wasting cycles on parsing headers that are not used anyway. A sideeffect of this is that dependencies between header fields are easier to deal with. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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