Re: ACTION-123: Silvia to come up with ABNF for header syntax - FINISHED

2010/5/20 Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@cwi.nl>:
> Hi Silvia,
>
>> I have worked on the ABNF for the HTTP headers and they are now all
>> part of the spec at the appropriate locations.
>> I have also aggregated them into an additional appendix, see
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-spec/#collected-syntax-http
>> .
>
> Thanks, great work!
> I'm wondering whether you have re-used some definitions from HTTP 1.1 Bis,
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt or not?

Yes, I have started from the relevant definitions there and extended
them where necessary. I have put links in the document where I have
done so.


>> I will not claim that everything I wrote is correct, so please go and
>> check back with your understanding and in particular with your
>> implementations. This is meant for us to take the next step. I'd be
>> particularly interested in having Yves counter-check, since he seems
>> to be the ABNF expert amongst us. :-)
>
> I will roll the ball to Yves!

Also ask your plugin developer if he can cross-read!

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Thursday, 20 May 2010 01:32:22 UTC