Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-pardue-httpbis-dont-be-clear-00.txt

Am 16.03.2021 um 01:47 schrieb Lucas Pardue:
> Hello HTTP WG,
>
> Anthony and I found a little Alt-Svc "what if" case where some naive
> parsing code might stumble when trying to process keyword "clear" or an
> ALPN protocol ID of "clear". The ALPN space is large enough that the

Not "naive", but really broken, right?

> chances are small, but we wrote a little I-D (forwarded) that would
> reserve the sequence so that nobody might do this unwittingly.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Maybe the odds of actual problems are so small that doing nothing is ok.
> Or maybe this is a potential improvement to bank for some type of RFC
> 7838bis. Either way, the problem seems well-formed enough to document in
> order to gather feedback or criticism :)
> ...

If we did a 7838bis, we *could* add a warning that using a broken parser
is bad. The problem is that people who actually read the spec whould
probably know this already.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 16 March 2021 07:38:58 UTC