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Re: Multiple header fields with the same field name - unwritten assumption about quoted commas in values?

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 16 January 2013 01:04 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: Piotr Dobrogost <p@ietf.dobrogost.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
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Subject: Re: Multiple header fields with the same field name - unwritten assumption about quoted commas in values?
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2013-01-16 00:38, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>> I guess what Nico had in mind is if this subject could be clarified in
>> 2.0 so that we won't have problems we have now in the future.
>
>
> What problem, exactly?
>
> Given a valid message, you can combine header fields as specified in the
> spec. But you don't have to.

You shouldn't if you're a middlebox.

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