- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 19:38:13 +0200
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 12.05.2020 19:23, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 06:53:40PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> while working on an implementation I encountered the following question. >> >> Consider something defined as "sh-list". If a value is received spread >> over multiple field instances, recipients *can* recombine the value >> before processing. So for >> >> Foo: "1 >> Foo: 2" >> >> ...the parser would see the string "1,2" (or maybe "1, 2"). >> >> What's not totally clear to me is whether recipients are *allowed* to >> process the field values separately, in which case parsing would fail. > > Note that they might not be aware that these were two values > because the folding might have been performed by an upstream > gateway. > ... Yes, understood. (and that's actually mentioned in the spec) Best regards, Julian
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