Re: Empty lists in Structured Headers (#781)

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In message <4d86289c-26fb-5add-5734-f4aff8cdb7fd@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes
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>> If a documented use case appears and a concensus for how to meet
>> its needs can be found, publishing a SHbis will not hurt anybody,
>> or create any compatibility issues since the specs that references
>> SHorig are not changed by SHbiss mere existence.
>
>So do yo envision implementers to have multiple code paths for SH,
>SHbis, SHbisbis???

No.

But if implementers want to support the FooBar: header which requires
SHter, they will have to upgrade their SH parser to SHter.

Doing so will not change the parsing or validation of headers specified
against SH or SHbis.

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Received on Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:01:35 UTC