Re: More on allowed field characters

> On 23 Aug 2021, at 3:53 pm, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
> 
>>  Even though HPACK is capable of carrying field names or values that
>>  are not valid in HTTP, HTTP/2 implementations MUST NOT emit names
>>  nor values that include characters disallowed by [HTTP].
> 
> That would be fine with me (s/emit/generate/), apart from it being somewhat redundant with HTTP.

Perhaps:

Note that Section 5.1 of [HTTP] prohibits implementations from generating field names that include some additional characters, even though HPACK is capable of carrying them.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Tuesday, 24 August 2021 01:43:47 UTC