- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:30:02 +0200
- To: Thomas Nordin <nordin@rbdev.com>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote:
> Thomas Nordin wrote:
>> The ABNF in
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-06.txt
>> (section 4.2) for "comment" seems to have the same problem as
>> mentioned in Ticket #31 for "quoted-string". I.e. "ctext" includes the
>> "\" character and thus "(\)" is ambiguous, either "\)" is a
>> "quoted-pair" and the comment is still open or it is a "ctext"
>> backslash followed by ")" thus ending the comment.
>>
>> Proposed solution: exclude "\" from ctext.
>
> Agreed. I have created ticket 162
> (<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/162>), and will
> change ctext to exclude "\" soonish.
Proposed patch; change ctext to say:
ctext = *( OWS / %x21-27 / %x2A-5B / %x5D-7E / obs-text )
(see also
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/162/162.diff>)
BR, Julian
Received on Friday, 1 May 2009 13:31:10 UTC