Re: Request for feedback on HTTP Location header syntax + semantics, Re: Issues 43 and 185, was: Issue 43 (combining fragments)

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11.03.2010 16:38, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Should we recommend the behavior we see implemented (SHOULD? MUST?)? Note
>>> that this would make current implementations of Opera and Safari
>>> non-compliant.
>>
>> Is there a reason to use SHOULD rather than MUST? If not I'd say use MUST.
>
> Usually we don't add normative requirements on top of RFC 2616, unless we're
> clearly fixing a bug (which is not the case here), or are confident that
> we're just writing down what everybody is doing anyway.

Why? Isn't the point of a spec to encourage interoperable behavior?

/ Jonas

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