- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:32:39 +0100
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > Hi, > > Earlier today I posted > <http://gsnedders.com/http-entity-tags-confusion>, and having discussed > it with various people, have concluded that it'd be best addressed by > RFC 2616bis. > > In short, the post raises the issue of the meaning of double quotes. If > you parse them out, you end up with Etag: W/"a" and Etag: "W/a" > equivalent. If you don't, you can end up with character sets such as > "UTF-8" (i.e., including the quotation marks) in headers like > Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8". What is the expected behaviour > for quoted-string (or, if need be, for each and every specification that > uses quoted-string)? > ... The simple answer is: the double quotes are part of the entity tag. So a response header such as ETag: x would simply be invalid and should be ignored. Best regards, Julian (PS: I wouldn't be opposed to making that more obvious)
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