- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:22:33 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 29/10/2011, at 8:55 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > 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. I'm +1 on your proposal <http://www.w3.org/mid/4E5FD624.2000802@gmx.de>. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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