- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:55:56 +0100
- To: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- CC: Piotr Dobrogost <p@ietf.dobrogost.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2013-01-09 20:37, Zhong Yu wrote: > ... > Well this is very funny, apparently, it *is* a valid quoted string per RFC2616 > > quoted-string = ( <"> *(qdtext | quoted-pair ) <"> ) > qdtext = <any TEXT except <">> > quoted-pair = "\" CHAR > > so bare backslashes are allowed, e.g. "\" is a valid quoted string. > > That got to be a bug in the RFC, isn't it? <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/31> > The new syntax for entity-tag also allows bare backslashes. If it was > a bug in the old syntax, the new syntax should probably forbid bare > backslashes. I don't recall why we didn't exclude them; probably in order to keep the change as minimal as possible. Best regards, Julian
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