- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 19:08:41 +0100
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Cc: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, 'Julian Reschke' <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > On 8 May 2009, at 18:08, Brian Smith wrote: > > >I don't get why s-Mon, s-Jan, l-Mon, etc. are named productions > >(instead of > >unnamed alternatives like in RFC 5023), but that is not new to this > >change. > > Case sensitivity. Plain strings in ABNF are case insensitive. Oh. I didn't realise date strings in HTTP were case sensitive. I just thought they were always generated that way for maximum compatibility and convention, in the same way that we capitalise HTTP header names according to convention. -- Jamie
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