- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 96 12:39:51 EDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: dwmorris@netcom.com
David Morris, dwmorris@netcom.com, asked Jim Gettys: > The question for the experts is: Is there some > protocol reason that userid shouldn't be redefined as > *(TEXTnotCOLON)? > > If need be, I or my crew could survey a few more browsers to build the > case for current practice. I'll be happy to post a proposed edit to the > list if there isn't an obvious reason to not make the change. I can't think of a *protocol* reason. Furthermore, I suspect any robust server is indifferent to what characters precede ':' (including CTLs!). That's certainly true of my server and, I think, NCSA and Apache. So the question is, what do clients do? I would welcome David's survey of current practice before endorsing the change, but I think it's a reasonable one. Meanwhile, I offer the following change proposal: Change: userid = [ token ] To: userid = *TEXTnocolon TEXTnocolon = <any OCTET except CTLs and ":", but including LWS> Dave Kristol
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