Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-15.txt, 4.1.6. Serializing a String

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

On 19 Feb 2020, at 4:08 am, Kari Hurtta <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Well, I disagree that this is ready.
> 
> 4.1.5.  Serializing a Decimal
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-15#section-4.1.5
> 
> tries define rounding.
> 
> This means that input_decimal is NOT decimal as defined on
> 
> 3.3.2.  Decimals
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-15#section-3.3.2
> 
> So that this is consistent
> 
> 
> 4.1.6.  Serializing a String
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-15#section-4.1.6
> 
> 	
> input_string is NOT string as defined on
> 
> 3.3.3.  Strings
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-15#section-3.3.3
> 
> 
> So let input_decimal to be some kind generic/abstract decimal number and
> therefore input_string to be some kind generic/abstract string.

See discussion and proposal at:
  https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/1055


> Make this failure more explicit. For example:
> 
>  1.  Convert input_string into an ASCII string ascii_string; if
>      conversion fails, fail serialisation.
> 
>  2.  If ascii_string contains characters in the range %x00-1f or 
>      %x7f (i.e., is not in VCHAR or SP), fail serialisation.
> 
>  3.  Let output be an empty string.
> 
>  4.  Append DQUOTE to output.
> 
> 
>  5. For each character char in ascii_string:
> 
>     and so on

That makes sense; likewise for tokens and keys. I've added a note to deal with this in #1055.

Cheers,


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