Re: Empty lists in Structured Headers (#781)

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Wed, 03 July 2019 09:12 UTC

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In message <8233C3B5-5FED-4B8D-A26A-A28A15DC6BD7@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham writes:

>See proposal at:
>  <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/pull/817>

Isn't this just a complicated way of saying "No header XYZ is the
same as an empty XYZ header" ?

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