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

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Tue, 15 January 2013 14:46 UTC

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In message <50F549D8.2050501@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes:
>On 2013-01-15 12:47, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>> To summarize, from the point of view of http client library (see
>> https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/741):
>>
>> - The safe approach is to not merge any header fields with the same field name.
>
>Yes.

I reached the same conclusion in Varnish, if you want headers
merged, you must do so explicity in VCL.

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