- From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:48:32 +0300
- To: Jesse Wilson <jesse@swank.ca>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:15:46PM -0400, Jesse Wilson wrote: > section 2.1<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-26#section-2.1>), > which says this: > > challenge = auth-scheme [ 1*SP ( token68 / #auth-param ) ] > auth-param = token BWS "=" BWS ( token / quoted-string ) > token68 = 1*( ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" / "+" / "/" ) *"=" > > Suppose I receive this response header: > > WWW-Authenticate: Wink ABC= > > Is ABC= a four character token68? Or is it a parameter named ABC whose > value is the empty string? AFAICT, it is token68. Neither token nor quoted-string can expand into empty string. Nor can those expand into string of '='. -Ilari
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