- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:46:40 +0100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Hi,
(follow-up to a discussion over at the HTML mailing list, see
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Nov/0271.html>).
We currently say in Section 4.2:
Multiple message-header fields with the same field-name MAY be
present in a message if and only if the entire field-value for that
header field is defined as a comma-separated list [i.e., #(values)].
-- <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-4.2>
Now this seems to be kind of backwards, wouldn't it be *much* clearer if
it said:
Multiple message-header fields with the same field-name MUST NOT be
present in a message unless the entire field-value for that
header field is defined as a comma-separated list [i.e., #(values)].
That being said, do we have a recommendation for recipients when that
requirement is violated? I would assume that servers SHOULD return a 400
(Bad Request), but what about clients?
Best regards, Julian
Received on Tuesday, 20 November 2007 09:47:04 UTC