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Re: [hybi] header field ABNF, was: I-D Action: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-11.txt

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 24 August 2011 14:42 UTC

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On 2011-08-24 16:21, Takeshi Yoshino wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 20:23, Alexey Melnikov
> <alexey.melnikov@isode.com <mailto:alexey.melnikov@isode.com>> wrote:
>
>     Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>         On 2011-08-23 23:56, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>
>             ...
>
>                 Sec-WebSocket-Accept = "Sec-WebSocket-Accept" ":"
>                 base64-value
>
>
>             I suggest we do whatever RFC 2616 is doing. I will double check.
>             ...
>
>
>         I strongly suggest to do what HTTPbis is doing; just specify the
>         ABNF for the field *value*.
>
>
> Thanks Julian. I just took a look at HTTPbis docs.
>
> So, the WebSocket spec points RFC 2616 but uses ones in HTTPbis? I think
> it's not friendly for readers. What's the plan for final publish? Will
> the reference be replaced with HTTPbis?

...that would imply waiting for HTTPbis; I doubt the WG wants to do this.

My recommendation is to use RFC2616 grammar constructs, but follow the 
HTTPbis style of only defining the ABNF for the header value.

 > ...

Best regards, Julian

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