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Re: [websec] HSTS ABNF still broken: requires leading semi-colon

Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> Sat, 24 March 2012 10:32 UTC

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On 24/03/12 10:28, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2012-03-24 11:18, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>> ...
>> I think this is fine. And you can enforce "can't be totally null" in
>> prose, if you don't want to fix this in ABNF.
>> ...
>
> There will always be constraints not checkable in the ABNF.
>
> I recommend to keep the ABNF simple (in particular not to include 
> syntactical constructs that vary by parameter name :-), and put all 
> other constraints either into prose, or into separate ABNF rules for 
> specific parameter values.
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> Best regards, Julian
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Fully agree with that recommendation.
+1

Tobias

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