- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:42:05 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>, WebDav WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, Joel Soderberg <joels@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
Joel Soderberg brought this up; it should be part of those interop notes, and yes, it was an actual experienced problem as far as I can remember. Lisa On Nov 24, 2005, at 7:55 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Cullen Jennings wrote: >> Just to educate me, what is the limit on header length and where is >> that >> defined? > > I don't think that there is a defined limit (see > <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#message.headers>). > > The concern was that clients/proxies/servers may indeed be limited, > and because the "If" header in theory can get very complex, that would > become a problem. > > What I would like to understand *before* changing RFC2518 is whether > the potential implementation limits are in header length, or in header > *line* length. In the latter case, the solution would be to just use > CRLF inside header lines, as allowed by RFC2616. > > Did anybody actually ever experience a problem? If not, I'd recommend > just leave things as they are in RFC2518. > > Best regards, Julian > > >
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