- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:57:53 +1000
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Yes. The only reason Link uses it is for backwards-compatibility with the original form, which is very old. On 17/07/2009, at 10:19 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > mån 2009-07-13 klockan 14:57 -0700 skrev =JeffH: >> . >> Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially >> recommended as >> a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded >> whitespace." > > However, if something is to be processed as a list in HTTP context > then > the quoted comma separated form is my recommended as that's the > standard > list format. > > Standard HTTP parsers will accept both quoted and non-quoted values. > Quotes is technically only needed for parsing if the value contains > whitespace or commas. > > 1#(token | quoted-string) > > or slight variants thereof (i.e. 1#(token "=" quoted-string) is a > fairly > common HTTP construct. > > Additionally <> quoting is not defined in 2616 or HTTPbis as far as I > know. > > Regards > Henrik > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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