- From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:53:10 -0600
- To: "Brian Kell" <abodeman@yahoo.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Thu, 2005/06/02 (MDT), <abodeman@yahoo.com> wrote: > In section 14.3, the definition of Accept-Encoding is given as follows: > > Accept-Encoding = "Accept-Encoding" ":" > 1#( codings [ ";" "q" "=" qvalue ] ) > > This definition implies that there must be at least one non-null > codings. However, just below this definition, one of the examples given > has an empty Accept-Encoding field-value: > > Accept-Encoding: compress, gzip > Accept-Encoding: > Accept-Encoding: * > Accept-Encoding: compress;q=0.5, gzip;q=1.0 > Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0, identity; q=0.5, *;q=0 > > Furthermore, the fourth rule for testing whether a content-coding is > acceptable mentions the possibility that the field-value may be empty. > > It seems, then, that the definition for Accept-Encoding should be > revised: > > Accept-Encoding = "Accept-Encoding" ":" > #( codings [ ";" "q" "=" qvalue ] ) Yes, looks like a bug to me. Thank you, Alex.
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