- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:44:03 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2011-08-30 13:35, Mark Nottingham wrote: > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/306> > > IIRC we checked various implementations and found that many don't handle ETags as a quoted-string; therefore, the safe/sensible thing to do is to re-define ETag as a something else; i.e., something with the same syntax, but without any special semantic for backslashes. > > We might also caution against including backslashes in them in prose, since it isn't interoperable. > > Thoughts / objections? Sounds right to me. Best regards, Julian
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