RE: Editorial issues with RFC 7616

Hi Julian,

Eventhough the generic syntax allows both tokens and quoted-strings for parameter values, I don't think it means that you by default can use both for a particular parameter. If it does, I think it should be explicitly stated.

Regards,

Christer

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> 
Sent: maanantai 28. kesäkuuta 2021 12.58
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: Editorial issues with RFC 7616

Am 28.06.2021 um 11:45 schrieb Christer Holmberg:
> ...
> Q3:
>
> Section 3.3 of RFC 7616 lists the allowed WWW-Authenticate parameters.
> But, there is no syntax for them. At the end of Section 3.3 there is 
> text saying which parameters should be encoded as quoted-strings, and 
> which should not be encoded as quoted-strings. But, for the 'charset'
> and 'userhash' parameters there is no text. Should they be encoded as 
> quoted-strings or not, or can they be both?
> ...

The syntax is generic, as defined in
<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=4b20e57b-14bbdc3f-4b20a5e0-861d41abace8-a333515a382dca50&q=1&e=32427685-fb2e-4541-99c4-0473c981d15a&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgreenbytes.de%2Ftech%2Fwebdav%2Frfc7235.html%23challenge.and.response>.

For the other issues I would recommend to raise errata.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 28 June 2021 10:44:25 UTC