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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sat, 24 March 2012 10:28 UTC

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

Best regards, Julian