RE: Set-Cookie vs list header parsing (i129) from Henrik Nordstrom on 2008-08-28 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2008)

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:18:13 +0200
To: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
Cc: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'Dan Winship'" <dan.winship@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <1219958293.27297.3.camel@henriknordstrom.net>

On ons, 2008-08-27 at 15:15 -0500, Brian Smith wrote:

> Like Dan said, it is best to say an intermediary SHOULD NOT combine headers
> fields in requests.

No. It's fine to do so on known list headers, such as Cache-Control or
If-None-Match, and quite many do.

"SHOULD NOT combine unknown headers" is perhaps a better wording.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Thursday, 28 August 2008 21:19:04 UTC