- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:30:24 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
* Julian Reschke wrote: >Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> * Julian Reschke wrote: >>> Looking at...: >>> >>> TEXT = <any OCTET except CTLs, >>> but including LWS> >>> LWS = [CRLF] 1*( SP | HT ) >>> CRLF = CR LF >>> >>> Reason-Phrase = *<TEXT, excluding CR, LF> >>> >>> So was the real intent to say: any OCTET except CTLs? >> >> That would disallow spaces. This is literally: > >No, it wouldn't. TEXT includes SP. But "any OCTET except CTLs" does not since CTL includes SP. >> OCTET - CTL + LWS - CR - LF >> >> Which is the same as >> >> OCTET - CTL + SP + HT > >If that's really the intet, we better say it explicitly. > >So, is HT allowed in reason phrases? According to RFC 2616 it is, because LWS includes it. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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