Re: Do ALTSVC parameters need to have a value?

> On Apr 23, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de> wrote:
>> draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-06 Section 3 refers to "parameter".
>> Section 1.1 says "parameter" is defined in RFC7230.  In fact, RFC7230
>> has "transfer-parameter" but not "parameter".  Also, RFC7230 Section
>> says "Parameters are in the form of a name or name=value pair.",
> 
> I believe that's a bug that we introduced in 7230.

Not a bug -- intentional change to reduce dependencies between parts.
The "transfer-parameter" is ABNF.  They are still parameters, in prose.

The real problem is that the draft is pointing to the wrong RFC:

   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.1


....Roy

Received on Thursday, 23 April 2015 17:24:39 UTC