Re: Core #30: HTTP Field Name Syntax

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In message <5A5244C2-02D4-45FF-BC47-3296E450D753@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri
tes:
><https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/30>
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>We discussed this in Montreal, and there seemed to be support in the =
>room (and on the issues list) for restricting the characters available =
>in HTTP headers to a more reasonable range.
>
>The straw-man I put into the issue was:
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>1*( "-" / "_" / "." / "+" / DIGIT / ALPHA )

Unless there is normative us of it, I think we should leave out the
"." to protect OO languages from smuggling attacks.

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Received on Monday, 15 October 2018 06:27:11 UTC