- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 17:56:51 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Mark Nottingham wrote: >> A pity. Is discouraging this in future implementations a bad thing? > > It might make sense to define that the User-Agent header takes a free > form string and that the recommended format is as currently specified. > That might match reality better, and move the nesting out of the ABNF. > > Discouraging "nested comments" does not strike me as very useful, when > someone wants to nest things, they could then just use [...] or encode > everything in a quoted string, with little benefit to anyone. The other places seem to be "Via" and "Server". I assume that all of these should be placed the same way, so it seems keeping the ABNF the way it is makes sense... BR, Julian
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