Re: Simplify cookie header field grammar in 6265bis

I commented in the github issue (and I forget the syntax used in other
RFC's), but couldn't/shouldn't this alternately be:

    set-cookie        = "Set-Cookie":" BWS set-cookie-string
    set-cookie-string = BWS cookie-pair *( BWS ";" OWS cookie-av )

IOW, the set-cookie includes the definition of the header name itself?

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:46 AM Steven Bingler <bingler@google.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> I think that's a reasonable idea. I'm already working on some minor
> editorial changes to the spec anyway, so I'll add this one in.
>
> I've created https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/2969 to
> track it
>
> Thanks,
> - Steven
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 11:59 AM Mark Thomas <markt@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Reading through the latest draft it appears that there is an opportunity
>> to simplify the grammar a little. The definition of set-cookie doesn't
>> appear to be adding anything. i.e.:
>>
>>     set-cookie        = set-cookie-string
>>     set-cookie-string = BWS cookie-pair *( BWS ";" OWS cookie-av )
>>
>> could be
>>
>>     set-cookie-string = BWS cookie-pair *( BWS ";" OWS cookie-av )
>>
>>
>> If this seems reasonable, I'm happy to produce a PR for this.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>

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