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Re: [Doh] [Ext] DoH client-server interoperability vs. strict HTTP parameter checking

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> Sat, 01 June 2019 14:42 UTC

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On Jun 1, 2019, at 5:36 AM, Christoph <cm@appliedprivacy.net> wrote:
> Should DoH servers reject requests with a '400 Bad Request'
> response when the request contains HTTP parameters not defined in RFC8484

No.

> or
> should DoH servers be less strict and simply ignore additional HTTP
> parameters and proceed with processing the relevant HTTP parameters
> required to provide an answer?

Yes.

RFC 8484 makes it clear that a "DoH server" is just an HTTP server that understands the DoH semantics. Trying to limit it beyond that is just wrong (or maybe just lazy).

--Paul Hoffman

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