- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:35:38 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2011-11-02 07:22, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > 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>. > ... OK, applied with <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1470>. Best regards, Julian
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