- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:54:34 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: Andreas Petersson <andreas@sbin.se>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@commscope.com>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <2FEDC936-35BC-4FED-B701-DB1962320C46@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri tes: >forwarded-for = 1#( hop *[ ";" parameter ] ) >hop = address | pseudonum >pseudonum = token >address = ... You do realize that this is superset of my proposal, which complicates the parsing, without adding any value ? >One of the reasons for allowing extension parameters, btw, is to allow >someone to sign the hops if they want to. You can do the same i both my and your own proposal by hexdumping the signature and send it as a pseudonym. Do you at least agree, that we have to state clearly that a received F-F header's content can only be correctly translated in the context it was generated ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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