Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-00 for general structured data

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In message <8f17660e-449f-7c4e-31b7-ba8d3f6af944@treenet.co.nz>, Amos Jeffries 
writes:

>AFAICS for most of the headers that will benefit from generic syntax
>parsing instead of custom parsers the desirable behavour is to normalize
>foo;o=X;o=y down to just foo;o=y to prevent foo;o=X vs foo;o=y
>interpretation differences by various recipients and nasty values being
>smuggled through middleware.
>
>If we can avoid having parameter name duplication, that would be a good
>step towards uniform handling of these smuggling protections.

I have deliberately not written that dictionaries cannot have duplication,
but smuggling prevention is a good reason to require that.

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Received on Saturday, 24 December 2016 07:43:48 UTC