Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces
Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sun, 03 March 2013 19:17 UTC
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Subject: Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces
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On 2013-03-03 20:03, Karl Dubost wrote: > ... > MY QUESTION (finally) :) > > Nothing is said about > ------------------------------------------------------- > " foo:bar" (1 or more space/tab before the fied-name) > ------------------------------------------------------- > ... It's not a legal field name, thus not a legal start of a header field line. > In appendix C, the ABNF defines token for: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-22#appendix-C > > The section of the spec saying > > field-name = token > > with > > token = 1*tchar > > and tchar as > > tchar = "!" / "#" / "$" / "%" / "&" / "'" / "*" / "+" / "-" / "." / > "^" / "_" / "`" / "|" / "~" / DIGIT / ALPHA > > > So the production rules forbid a leading space, but nothing is said about parsing this leading space. > > * Should it say something? > * If yes, what? > * If not, why? It's forbidden by the grammar, so it's invalid. Best regards, Julian
- Header field-name token and leading spaces Karl Dubost
- Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces Julian Reschke
- Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces Jeff Pinner
- Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces Karl Dubost