Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3150)
Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 08 March 2012 00:28 UTC
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Subject: Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3150)
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On 3/7/12 5:24 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * RFC Errata System wrote: >> Section: 4.1 >> >> Original Text >> ------------- >> AQIDBAUGBwgJCgsMDQ4PEC== >> >> Corrected Text >> -------------- >> AQIDBAUGBwgJCgsMDQ4PEA== >> >> Notes >> ----- >> The "test vector" for Sec-WebSocket-Key encoding, provided in RFC 6455 >> section 4.1, is wrong. It was processed by a base 64 encoder that was >> "improperly implemented" as mentioned in RFC 4648 section 3.5. > > If this is true, why did we fail to catch this in time? Was it added > late, for instance? (I would like an analysis to support discussions > whether to create a review team specifically for this kind of formal > syntax error.) As far as I can tell from the erratum, this was a problem with generation of an example, not a syntax error. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
- [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3150) RFC Errata System
- Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3… Takeshi Yoshino
- Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [hybi] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6455 (3… Alexey Melnikov