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Re: Use of extension-header in entity-header

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:38:52 +0200
To: "Brian Smith" <brian@briansmith.org>
Cc: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <uosa15pei67sdvfi6gc3lc2vlakvkfcc9e@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>
* Brian Smith wrote:
>It is encoded in the grammar. The names of the grammar productions do not
>define the semantics. The extension-header rule could (should) be factored
>out into Request, Response, and Trailer, but the resultant grammar will be
>equivalent to the original.

I disagree.

>I think it makes a lot of sense to restrict the names of extension-headers
>to be disjoint from at least the set of general-, request-, and response-
>headers defined in the specification. Then an unconditionally-compliant
>implementation could behave the way you describe.

They can do so already, because the requirement is for unrecognized
headers. If an implementation generates an error because it suspects
a header value is malformed, then it does recognize the header. And
merely noting the issue would happen outside the realm of the proto-
col; the specification does not regulate what may or may not be put
into a web server log file, for example.
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