Re: draft-montenegro-httpbis-uri-encoding

On 2014-03-22 08:27, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2014-03-22 06:40, Gabriel Montenegro wrote:
>> ...
>>> From Julian:
>>
>>     Practically, how is a UA supposed to *know* the encoding that was
>> used for the URI *unless' it constructed it itself? (Which is not what
>> browsers do; they only construct the query part).
>>
>> If you don't know for sure, then don't use the header. But if you know
>> for sure, it's useful to indicate this fact by using the headers to
>> tighten parsing at the other side. Notice that a malicious agent would
>> have incentive to *not* use the header so as to continue exploiting
>> the legacy situation. Using the header imposes constraints that make
>> it harder to exploit the current situation of non-determinism.
>
> I have the impression that some of the confusion is caused by different
> people making different claims about what recipients will do with the
> server. My understanding was that Nicolas sees this as a signal that

Sorry. s/server/header field/

> ....

Best regards, Julian

Received on Saturday, 22 March 2014 07:47:44 UTC