Re: Empty lists in Structured Headers (#781)

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 02 May 2019 18:22 UTC

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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
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From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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On 02.05.2019 19:59, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> In message <20190502174129.GF32325@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:
>
>> I think that the opposition against support of empty values only came
>>from an almost inexistent need at a moment [...]
>
> As far as I could tell, that was a completely nonexistent need, but
> to me it matters little if we are trying to generalize from only
> one example or from no example at all.
>
> And please remember that SH is a meta-specification, a specification
> to write other specifications with.
>
> If a documented use case appears and a concensus for how to meet
> its needs can be found, publishing a SHbis will not hurt anybody,
> or create any compatibility issues since the specs that references
> SHorig are not changed by SHbiss mere existence.

Hmm.

So do yo envision implementers to have multiple code paths for SH,
SHbis, SHbisbis???

Best regards, Julian