Re: #335, was: obs-fold

Since OWS and BWS include obs-fold, that would allow generation of

1  GET / HTTP/1.1
2  Host:
3
4    www.example.com
5
6  Accept: *
7

where line 3 and 5 contain spaces.

The intention seems to be to forbid line folding anywhere in the
message head. CR/LF are already forbidden in request/response
line(specifically mentioned in RFC 2616). What's left is
'header-field'.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> I think "field-value" would work...
>
>
> On 01/02/2012, at 8:00 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>> On 2012-01-30 01:14, Zhong Yu wrote:
>>> p1 section 3.2.1.
>>>
>>>    HTTP senders MUST NOT produce messages that include
>>>    line folding (i.e., that contain any #field-content# that matches the
>>>    obs-fold rule)
>>>
>>> shouldn't that be
>>>
>>>    HTTP senders MUST NOT produce messages that include
>>>    line folding (i.e., that contain any #header-field# that matches the
>>>    obs-fold rule)
>>>
>>> instead?
>>>
>>>      OWS            = *( SP / HTAB / obs-fold )
>>>      BWS            = OWS
>>>
>>>      header-field   = field-name ":" OWS field-value BWS
>>>      field-name     = token
>>>      field-value    = *( field-content / obs-fold )
>>>      field-content  = *( HTAB / SP / VCHAR / obs-text )
>>
>> Minimally, this is phrased confusingly. Not being sure what the best fix is, I opened a ticket: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/335>
>>
>> Best regards, Julian
>>
>>
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 02:25:24 UTC