- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:54:38 -0600
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > In addition, micro-managing this may even be harmful if we end up > defining different strategies for different headers (for instance for > Content-Type as compared to Content-Disposition). It seems it would > be a better use of our time to work on test cases, identify common > syntax patterns, and help UAs to get their code fixed. > +1. Also, +1 to comments by Mike, Simon, Shelley, Dimitre, Alain and Gerrit about browser-driven standardization: http://saxonica.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2010/11/4/4671786.html That discussion isn't about HTTP, but all the sentiments apply. Is there one standardized way to parse what are essentially MIME headers, or 1+n algorithms because that's how browsers are (unaccountably to anyone) written? -Eric
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