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Re: signatures vs sf-date

From: Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:03:13 +0000
Message-ID: <CALGR9oaM+ZsN8EbFdUAKe468bZAJA=tW7BKq2E8o6WtXp728qQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 4:09 PM Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Bare items are simple; there's no optionality involved.
>
> What about a dictionary, where you're only looking for "x" (expected to
> be an integer), but the sender adds an extension parameter "y" as sf-date?
>
> A conforming parser (of the current spec) will reject the whole field
> value, and the recipient will not be able to see the value for "x".
>

Yeah, thats what happens in sfv, it fails the Dictionary parse and there's
no structured way to work around that :-(

Cheers,
Lucas
Received on Monday, 23 January 2023 17:03:37 UTC

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