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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> Tue, 15 January 2013 23:38 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:37:08 -0600
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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, 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 5:28 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> We're talking about HTTP/1.x here, not 2.0. We can't retroactively make implementations non-conformant.

Ah, yes.  But we could stop encouraging implementors to merge multiple
header instances.  Then we only have to say that it happens and
explain the pitfalls.

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