[Http-grease] Escaped "\" or DQUOTE not web compatible

Mike Taylor <miketaylr@google.com> Wed, 18 November 2020 19:06 UTC

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Subject: [Http-grease] Escaped "\" or DQUOTE not web compatible
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Hi there,

We've decided to pull[1] \\ and \" from the Sec-UA-CH brand arbitrary 
value in Chrome as it incurs too much site breakage (see [2] for summary).

In my opinion, escaped "\" or DQUOTE are not web compatible.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1149575
[2] https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints/issues/161

thanks,
Mike