- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:42:42 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Now that we've dealt with allowed characters in quoted pairs <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/194 >, can we wrap this one up too? Julian, does your proposal need to be modified? <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/173> On 28/08/2009, at 9:28 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > tor 2009-08-27 klockan 14:03 +0200 skrev Julian Reschke: > >> It appears that we *do* have consensus for disallowing controls in >> quoted-pairs, thus for: >> >> quoted-pair = "\" ( WSP / VCHAR / obs-text ) > > Yes. > >> However, if that's all that we do we won't have addresses issue #173 >> after all. > > Indeed. > >> Proposal: >> >> - add a new issue for disallowing CTLs in quoted-pair > > Yes. > >> - address #173 by tuning the definition of chunk-ext-val > > Which means defining a new variant of quoted-string which do not allow > for folding for use in chunk-ext-val. > > chunk-ext-val = token / quoted-string-nf > quoted-string-nf = DQUOTE *( qdtext-nf / quoted-pair ) DQUOTE > qdtext-nf = WSP / %x21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-7E / obs-text > ; WSP / <VCHAR except DQUOTE and "\"> / obs-text > > > assuming quoted-pair is fixed as discussed. > > Perhaps is should also be noted in text that folding is explicitly > forbidden in chunk headers. > > Comments are thankfully not allowed in chunk extensions from what I > can tell. > > Regards > Henrik > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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