Re: duplicate parameters

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 11 June 2013 06:39 UTC

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On 2013-06-10 23:55, R S wrote:
> http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/wiki/HeaderFieldTypes
>
> That discussion looks old, but this issue came up for me recently.

Edits and actionable feedback welcome.

> It seems some clients errantly send multiple "boundary" parameters in
> multipart requests. Apache Commons and Rails can deal with this by

Which? How often? Have bug reports been filed?

> choosing the last boundary value, while Netty doesn't currently handle it.
>
> The WG might want to address this since it seems to be required for
> interoperability.

Any evidence it's "required"?

Anyway, this isn't about "multipart/byteranges", right?

Best regards, Julian