Re: [jose] "x5c" - JSON Compatible?

Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> Tue, 13 January 2015 16:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [jose] "x5c" - JSON Compatible?
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Anders Rundgren <
anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2015-01-13 12:35, Richard Barnes wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 13, 2015, Anders Rundgren <
>> anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     The spec claims the following:
>>
>>        "Note that since these strings contain base64 encoded
>>        (not base64url encoded) values, they are allowed to contain
>>        white space and line breaks."
>>
>>     Is this really JSON compliant?
>>
>>     I didn't interpret the JSON spec in that way and Python and Chrome
>> seems to agree with me.
>>
>>     What's I'm missing here?
>>
>>
>> Are you seriously suggesting that JSON strings can't contain white space?
>>
>> Control characters have to be escaped, but they can definitely be there.
>>
>> JSON.parse('["this is...\\u000A...a string"]')
>>
>
> Sure, but the example in appendix B wouldn't parse.
> Shouldn't a proper text say that possible line-breaks MUST be properly
> escaped.
>

​Line breaks in JSON do have to be escaped, either as above or with \r \n.
This is clear at www.json.org.

…Mark​



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>> --Richard
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>>     Cheers
>>     Anders
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