Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces

Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> Sun, 03 March 2013 22:59 UTC

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Le 3 mars 2013 à 14:21, Poul-Henning Kamp a écrit :
> Actually, something is said:  It is a continuation line for
> the previous header.

Ah indeed.
    obs-fold       = CRLF ( SP / HTAB )
                   ; obsolete line folding
                   ; see Section 3.2.4

ok. cool. So it should be forbidden in production. It is not the intent of the author with:

request.add_header(' foo', 'bar')
→ " foo:bar"

Cool Thanks!


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