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Re: JSON headers

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Sun, 10 July 2016 08:09 UTC

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To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
cc: Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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In message <564a72e8-b9d3-1f9c-5982-48f2b07272e5@greenbytes.de>, Julian Reschke
 writes:
>On 2016-07-08 20:44, Phil Hunt wrote:
>> Not sure if this has been discussed. One of the biggest problems with
>> HTTP request signing has been repeat headers. It presents problem of
>> detecting which headers are intended and which header was signed first.
>>
>> It would be nice if the JSON encoding handled arrays so that the demand
>> for duplicate headers is removed.  Signing could then be more successful
>> and could even stipulate that the presence of a repeat header in a
>> signed request is a failure condition.
>> ...
>
>FWIW, duplicate headers aren't really needed, when the header field was 
>defined properly (so the only problem is Set-Cookie, see 
><https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7230.html#field.order>).

I'll second the call for a blanket ban on repeat headers if they
use the new (JSON-)syntax.

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