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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Mon, 09 January 2012 00:10 UTC

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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:10:16 +0100
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* Tobias Gondrom wrote:
><hat="chair>
>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.

It seems to me that all headers defined in RFC 2616 that allow para-
meteter lists of the `;name=value` form allow the value to be a quoted
string. If the Working Group wishes to disallow quoted strings, then
it should use a format that's very different from the existing syntax,
like `name=value&name=other%20value` or JSON or whatever. "Similar but
slightly different" always translate into bugs.
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