Re: Last Call: <draft-nottingham-rfc5988bis-05.txt> (Web Linking) to Proposed Standard

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2017-05-16 04:37, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> ...
> This is what I currently have:
>   https://gist.github.com/mnot/2fb569e7303dbcdde8b27cb7a404a648
>
> I need to get some more eyeballs onto it to make sure it's correct (or at least reasonable). Reviews appreciated.
> ...

I think this goes into the right direction; it's mostly a parser based 
on a relaxed ABNF transformed to prose (which makes me wonder whether 
there's a tool to be written here :-).

Other comments:

1)  "... If it is not present, context_string is the identity of the 
representation carrying the Link header ..." - similar prose is 
elsewhere in the spec - what is "the identity of a representation"?????

2) "Consume the contents up to but not including the first DQUOTE 
character that is not preceded by a "" character" - I assume there's a 
backslash missing here. That said: doesn't work, because it would fail 
for an input such as: "\\" - here, the DQUOTE is preceded by backslash, 
but it's not part of the quoted-pair.

Best regards, Julian