draft-ietf-httpbis-key-01, "2.3.5 param"

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 05 April 2016 13:42 UTC

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<https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-key-latest.html#rfc.section.2.3.5> 
describes the "param" parameter. It allows matching parameter values 
from header fields using name=value  pairs.

I see several problems here:

- it doesn't allow keying on the first part of the field value, which in 
most cases, does not take name=value syntax (think Accept:)

- it doesn't handle quoted-string properly 
(<https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/166>)

- it might be good to think about implications of RFC 5987

It seems it was designed with Cookie parameters in mind; maybe those are 
sufficiently different from parameters in other header fields to require 
special-casing?

Best regards, Julian