Re: #341: whitespace in request-lines and status-lines

On Feb 20, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> OK, but currently we don't talk about multiple spaces (or other whitespace) in the top-line anywhere; what's the appropriate vehicle?

There is no vehicle needed.  As I said in the ticket, the only interoperable behavior
is to send a single SP. If some implementations choose to receive more than one space,
that's their choice -- it is still not interoperable to send more than one space.
The ABNF defines what is valid to send, not what is robust to parse.  I'd rather change
Apache httpd's parser to forbid extra spaces than make the request-line less predictable.

....Roy

Received on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 05:46:45 UTC