Re: Base for first-byte-pos, last-byte-pos, suffix-length from Julian Reschke on 2009-04-17 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2009)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:53:32 +0200
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
CC: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <49E8276C.3040806@gmx.de>

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> +1 to just removing the language around C-L; DIGIT is unambiguous.

+1.

> Julian, not sure where JS comes into it - ref?

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2008OctDec/0421.html>

The problem was feeding the value into the JavaScript's parseInt() (not 
specifying the base), and the actual value having a leading zero.

I'd argue this is a documentation/education problem related to 
JavaScript, not HTTP.

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 17 April 2009 06:54:25 UTC