Re: #306: does etag value really use quoted-string

On 2011-08-30 13:35, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/306>
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> 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.
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> We might also caution against including backslashes in them in prose, since it isn't interoperable.
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> Thoughts / objections?

Sounds right to me.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 1 September 2011 17:44:33 UTC