- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:38:41 +0100
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
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
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