- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:07:57 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP working group mailing list <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <b41122ed-b25a-7ce8-a3bf-331d9f916bad@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes : >Yes, but it's not relevant whether we can transport random JSON. What's >relevant is that all JSON can be converted to something that can be >safely transmitted in HTTP/1.1 header field values (and that is the case). But then it is no longer JSON but "JSON with footnotes". We can haggle about how many footnotes are necessary, or if they're important, but there's no escaping that they will trip people up and cause bugs and possibly security holes down the line. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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