Re: #231: Considerations for new headers

On 30/06/2011, at 5:38 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
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> On second though, I can see why Amos was confused by ";" and ",". We should clarify the roles of "," and ";", where the latter is frequently used in header fields that use the "parameter" ABNF (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.6>).

Yes, I'm still figuring out how to best illustrate the point I'm trying to make; revised proposal soon.

> Indeed, we should encourage authors of new header fields to re-use existing ABNF constructs, so that recipients can re-use parser components.

Yep; that's already an issue <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/266>.

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