Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 12 July 2011 08:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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On 2011-07-12 09:48, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 2011/7/12 Mykyta Yevstifeyev<evnikita2@gmail.com>:
>>>           Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: bar; baz=2
>>>
>>>     is exactly equivalent to
>>>
>>>           Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: foo, bar; baz=2
>>
>> These two examples don't match the aforementioned ABNF; the space before
>> "baz=2" should be removed.
>
> Hi, are you sure of that? In SIP protocol (which inherits from HTTP
> grammar) a header parameter (;foo=lalala) can contain spaces anywhere
> (before/after the ";", before/after the "="). So something like:
>
>     Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: foo  , bar  ; baz = 2
>
> is valid.
>
> However it's not clear for me wheter in this example "baz=2" is a
> header param or a param just for the value "bar". In the last case it
> would mean a specific header syntax, so spaces could be not allowed.
> Could you please point to the ABNF grammar you meant?

According to 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10#section-9.1> 
it's a parameter of "bar".

That being said, I'm not happy with

          extension-param = token [ "=" token ]

In HTTP header fields, parameters usually support both token and 
quoted-string form.

Making this special means that existing header field parser code can't 
be easily re-used.

Best regards, Julian