Re: Do ALTSVC parameters need to have a value?

On 2015-04-23 19:24, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> 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

The bug being that the prose (in 7230) says "Parameters are in the form 
of a name or name=value pair", while the ABNF requires a value.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 23 April 2015 17:26:02 UTC