RE: 4xx responses for bad query strings?

Le mar 03/08/2004 à 15:48, NESTING, DAVID M (SBCSI) a écrit :
> > Lacking this, I think it's perfectly OK to
>    The Request-URI is a Uniform Resource Identifier (section 3.2) and
>    identifies the resource upon which to apply the request.
> 
>        Request-URI    = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path | authority
> 
> Only the absoluteURI contains the query string, so the specification would even seem to forbid the use of query strings in non-proxy Request-URIs.  Am I reading this correctly?
> [...]
> Given that this does not appear to be how things are done today (the query string is sent along with the abs_path in HTTP requests), is this an omission from the RFC?

This is indeed an error in the RFC, listed in the errata list for this
specification:
http://skrb.org/ietf/http_errata.html#uriquery
(noted as such in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg-old/2001MayAug/0034.html )

Regards,

Dom
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