- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:43:53 +1000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Yeah, what Julian said; I'd like to do this, but am concerned about
what it would mean.
Can we keep it (relatively) open in BNF, and caution against quoting
anything but DQUOTE in prose?
Not a great solution, but...
On 28/08/2009, at 7:35 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> It appears that we *do* have consensus for disallowing controls in
>>> quoted-pairs, thus for:
>>>
>>> quoted-pair = "\" ( WSP / VCHAR / obs-text )
>>>
>>> However, if that's all that we do we won't have addresses issue
>>> #173 after all.
>>>
>>> Proposal:
>>>
>>> - add a new issue for disallowing CTLs in quoted-pair
>> I suggest we make the issue "Disallow quoted-pair productions that
>> are
>> never used in practice nor needed for parsing", with the fix being
>> quoted-pair = "\" ( "\" / DQUOTE / "(" / ")" )
> > ...
>
> - I have opened issue #194 for this.
>
> - Restricting it to only these four characters is attractive, but
> may break content where people quoted too defensively.
>
> BR, Julian
>
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