Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7233 (5620)

On 2019-02-01 10:06, RFC Errata System wrote:
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7233,
> "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests".
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5620
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Armin Abfalterer <a.abfalterer@gmail.com>
> 
> Section: 4.2
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> Original Text
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> Content-Range       = byte-content-range
>                      / other-content-range
> 
> other-content-range = other-range-unit SP other-range-resp
> other-range-resp    = *CHAR
> 
> Corrected Text
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> 
> Notes
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> Due to the loose definition of "other-content-range" invalid "byte content range" values are possible.
> 
> For example, following invalid header value is not valid according to "byte-content-range" (as "complete-length" or "*" is missing) but is yet allowed by "other-content-range".
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> Content-Range: bytes 42-1233/
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> The problem might be solved by excluding "bytes-unit" in "other-range-unit".
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> RFC7233 (draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-26)
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> Title               : Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests
> Publication Date    : June 2014
> Author(s)           : R. Fielding, Ed., Y. Lafon, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed.
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis APP
> Area                : Applications
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG

I agree this is a problem (similar to other problems we solved already 
in RFC723*). The proposed fix however doesn't work for me. This is where 
a monolithic ABNF just does not work.

I have opened <https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/196> and 
recommend to set this to "held for document update".

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 1 February 2019 10:27:31 UTC