- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:01:45 +0100
- To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2011-12-07 03:45, Amos Jeffries wrote: > On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:46:47 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: >> >> We're trying to find some structure in HTTP header field syntax, see >> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/wiki/HeaderFieldTypes> for >> the work-in-progress. >> > > That list of ABNF is missing the pattern that could be called > "quoted-blob" or such. Things which appear superficially to have the > syntax of quoted-string but exclude the quoted-pair (or failed to spec > escaping entirely, with the same end result). ie the string portion may > contain bare \ characters which will break attempts to use a > quoted-string parser on it. Oh, that's something we don't want to encourage! > Examples for this can be found in the new ETag ABNF from HTTPbis and the > path= parameter of Digest authentication. Possibly elsewhere I have not > run into yet. If "path" does this in Digest for WWW-Authenticate, then Digest is broken and we should raise an erratum. Best regards, Julian
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