- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:25:31 +0200
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- CC: Bence Béky <bnc@chromium.org>, HTTP <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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
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