- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:55:04 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2011-10-24 20:13, Julian Reschke wrote: > ... Trying to summarize where we are: 1) Yves did dome tests on servers: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/0266.html> -> the servers being tested didn't seem to unescape 2) Amos Jeffries reports that recent Squids actually *do* handle them as quoted-strings: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/0470.html> 3) I tested various browsers, and they do not unescape: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011OctDec/0087.html> So what do we do? Claiming that etags use quoted-strings when almost nobody does seems to be a bad thing. For instance, apparently it has caused the Squid developers to make a change that in the best case is harmless, and in the worst case will break things. Best regards, Julian
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