WGLC: p5 multiple Range headers

Hi All,

Per 
https://svn.tools.ietf.org/svn/wg/httpbis/draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.html#field.order 
multiple Range header fields aren't allowed due to the field value 
containing more than just a comma-separated list (bytes-unit).  That 
being said, there was a discussion on the public-media-fragment@w3.org 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-media-fragment/2009Sep/0064.html> 
list a few years ago about multiple Range header fields, and in that 
thread Yves didn't state that multiple Range header fields are prohibited.

I'm wondering if this was an oversight or if multiple Range header 
fields actually appear in the wild and clients expect it to work. If 
they are allowed, then the Range header needs to be called out as an 
exception in p1.  If not, was this thread just an isolated instance of 
confusion, or is it worth adding text to p5 to explicitly state that 
only one Range header is allowed?

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University

Received on Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:48:36 UTC