Re: Dealing with Invalid UTF-8

Yup.


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>wrote:

> On 2013-08-14 00:12, James M Snell wrote:
>
>> https://github.com/http2/**http2-spec/issues/232<https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/232>
>>
>> The current header compression draft states that header field values
>> are UTF-8. However, the spec says nothing about how to deal with
>> overlong encodings, invalid UTF-8 octet sequences or valid UTF-8
>> sequences that encode invalid Unicode codepoints.
>>
>> I recommend stating that any of these conditions ought to result in an
>> error. An encoder MUST NOT output any of these; and a decoder ought to
>> signal a connection error if encountered.
>>
>
> ...whether this is an issue or not depends on what we decide we respect to
> whether field values are octet sequences or strings...
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>
>

Received on Friday, 16 August 2013 16:31:31 UTC