- From: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:12:18 -0400
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
+1 On Aug 13, 2013, at 6:08 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote: > https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/231 > > The current header compression spec allows for UTF-8 encoded header > names without any character restrictions. The main HTTP/2 spec, > however, states that header names are "strings of ASCII characters" > (also without specifying any character restrictions). We need to be > clearer. > > Recommend that we specify in both the HTTP/2 and Header Compression > spec that header names MUST conform to: > > LOWERALPHA = %x61-7A > header-name = "!" / "#" / "$" / "%" / "&" / "'" / > "*" / "+" / "-" / "." / "^" / "_" / > "`" / "|" / "~" / DIGIT / LOWERALPHA > > Which is the all-lower-case equivalent to the header-name definition > currently in httpbis. > _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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