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

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 15 January 2013 22:12 UTC

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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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Saying that headers can only be combined under certain circumstances doesn't mean that they're required to be combined.

Cheers,


On 16/01/2013, at 3:23 AM, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:

> and it seems to contradict my understanding.
> My initial point was:
> 
>  GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
>  Host: blah.example.org
>  Link: </2012/07/26/csstests/csshttplink.css>;rel=stylesheet
>  Link: </>;rel=next
>  […]
> 
> If I understand the spec, this above is forbidden. It MUST be
> 
>  GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
>  Host: blah.example.org
>  Link: </2012/07/26/csstests/csshttplink.css>;rel=stylesheet, </>;rel=next
> 
> 
> The special case I know is "Set-Cookie" which can't be merged. others?

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