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Re: Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-18: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Thu, 21 May 2020 02:39 UTC

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Thanks, Ian C also caught this. Corrected in <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/commit/c23df1c8>.

> On 21 May 2020, at 2:23 am, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 08:39:03AM -0700, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> Section 6
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It seems worth mentioning the handling for duplicated key names (e.g.,
>>>>>> in parameters and dictionaries) w.r.t. overwrite or must-be-unique, and
>>>>>> how there have been previous vulnerabilities relating to different
>>>>>> implementations choosing "first one wins" vs. "last one wins".
>>>>> 
>>>>> That doesn't seem to apply to a correct implementation, only to headers that *aren't* structured fields.
>>>> 
>>>> It's still motivation for why we are making the choices we did and a
>>>> benefit that structured headers have over the existing mechanisms.
>>> 
>>> Right, but that doesn't seem appropriate in Security Considerations; it's more Introduction / motivating material.
>>> 
>>>> Also, it seems to explicitly apply to parameter map keys (per the earlier
>>>> discussion).
>>> 
>>> I've added a note to this effect in the Dictionary and Parameter parsing algorithms; see latest commit.
> 
> Hmm, the note says this discards duplicates after the first one, but the
> procedures say to overwrite an existing value.  Shouldn't the note say
> something else?
> 
> -Ben

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