Issue 261: Check for requirements backing test cases, was: Comments on draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp

>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp-03#section-3.3
>>
>> This section provides very little guidance about how to extract a file
>> name from the filename parameter.  For example, it fails to instruct
>> the user agent about how to handle the following test cases:
>>
>> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attwithasciifnescapedquote
>> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attwithasciifilenamenqws
>> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attwithutf8fnplain
>> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attwithfnrawpctenca
>> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attwith2filenames
>> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attfnbrokentoken
>> http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attbrokenquotedfn
>
> Ticket:
>    http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/261
>
>
>> In particular, this document should define an algorithm that takes as
>> input a sequence of bytes obtained by parsing the Content-Disposition
>> header field value and returns a sequence of characters which is the
>> file name requested by the server.
>
> I'm treating that as editorial advice.

I'm not sure where to start :-)

Like it or not, the draft relies on the ABNF for parameter parsing, and 
delegates the filename* format to RFC 5987.

For valid header field instances this is supposed to be sufficient. If 
it's not, let's focus on details. Would it be helpful if I went through 
the valid header field instances in these test cases and explained how 
they parse?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 2 November 2010 08:50:13 UTC