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Re: [websec] Strict-Transport-Security syntax redux

"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> Thu, 05 January 2012 08:20 UTC

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On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:55:10 +0100, Tobias Gondrom  
<tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> wrote:
> as it seems there is disagreement on how to resolve this, with only very  
> few people having spoken out so far, I would like to invite comments  
> from other working group members on this topic to see whether we might  
> have missed something.

I don't really get what the advantage of allowing quoted string here is.  
If we can use a simpler production, what is wrong with using that?


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