Re: Multiple header fields with the same field name - unwritten assumption about quoted commas in values?

Piotr Dobrogost <p@ietf.dobrogost.net> Tue, 15 January 2013 15:40 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:38:29 +0100
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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 4:30 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Note: current text in editor's copy is:
>
> "A sender MUST NOT generate multiple header fields with the same field name
> in a message unless either the entire field value for that header field is
> defined as a comma-separated list [i.e., #(values)] or the header field is a
> well-known exception (as noted below)." --
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest.html#rfc.section.3.2.2>

Is the change compared to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-21#section-3.2
was made due to discussion in this thread?

Piotr