Re: #305 Header ordering

On 22 November 2013 08:51, Mike Bishop <Michael.Bishop@microsoft.com> wrote:
> The order in which header fields with the same field name are received is
> therefore significant to the interpretation of the combined field value; a
> proxy MUST NOT change the order of these field values when forwarding a
> message.
>
> If 1.1 says that order is always significant and we’re not supposed to be
> changing 1.1 semantics….


That's generic guidance.  I am personally comfortable with a
semantics-aware encoder reordering the header fields, which is what
you effectively do if you don't use the ordering-guaranteed mechanism
we define.

Received on Friday, 22 November 2013 18:02:30 UTC