- From: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 20:35:10 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
For my dense brain, could you provide an explicit example of a header which would have a different meaning? On Wed, 6 May 2009, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On May 6, 2009, at 5:38 PM, David Morris wrote: >> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote: >>> and adding this to the subsequent paragraph (defining what it means to >>> match): >>> >>> If a header field is absent from a a request, it can only match another >>> request if it is also absent there. >>> >> Any reason we can't make an empty value == to absent for this purpose? > > Because they don't mean the same thing in HTTP. > > ....Roy
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