- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 13:55:11 +0200
- To: Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com>, Ilya Grigorik <igrigorik@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 2016-06-03 13:26, Vasiliy Faronov wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Ilya Grigorik <igrigorik@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 3. Are requirements like "If DPR occurs in a message more than once" >>> (ditto for the other fields) useful? Duplicating these fields is >>> already invalid per RFC 7230. >> >> >> Ah, happy drop those if they're no longer needed. Any objections? > > To expand on this: > > I think many implementors will simply use whatever their platform's > equivalent of "request.headers['DPR']" gives them. For many (as in > WSGI/CGI), this will be all field-values joined by a comma. Those > requirements will make such implementations non-conformant--for no > good reason, it seems. But these implementations *could* split on comma and use the last value, right? What would *you* want the spec to say? Just be silent about it? Or declare invalid therefore "must ignore"? Best regards, Julian
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