#443: whitespace in request-target

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 08 May 2013 01:13 UTC

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I think that's going beyond the scope of this issue, which was really just about the strength of the requirement.

Since then, we've adjusted the semantics of SHOULD, and I think we can close this ticket as WONTFIX.

Cheers,


On 30/04/2013, at 3:52 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

>    Clients MUST NOT send user-typed delimiters and embedded whitespaces
>    as-is in URIs, and SHOULD either encode them, strip them. Alternatively
>    they MAY simply refuse to perform the request.
> 
>    Servers and intermediaries MUST NOT try to fix embedded spaces and
>    delimiters in URIs, as doing so could lead to interoperability issues
>    and make several components in the chain understand different things.
>    When a request does not parse exactly as defined in the ABNF, an error
>    400 (Bad Request) MUST be returned to the client.

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p1: whitespace in request-target Mark Nottingham
Re: p1: whitespace in request-target Amos Jeffries
Re: p1: whitespace in request-target Willy Tarreau
#443: p1: whitespace in request-target Mark Nottingham
Re: p1: whitespace in request-target Mark Nottingham
Re: p1: whitespace in request-target Willy Tarreau
#443: whitespace in request-target Mark Nottingham
Re: p1: whitespace in request-target Roy T. Fielding
Re: p1: whitespace in request-target Willy Tarreau