ACTION-59 - Public View
Check HTTP spec to see whether concatenating values of headers with same names is acceptable in all cases
- State:
- CLOSED
- Person:
- Dean Jackson
- Due on:
- 2006-03-01
- Created on:
- 2006-02-22
- URI:
- Related emails:
- Re: minutes review (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-03-06)
- Face to face minutes (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-03-09)
Related notes:
2006-02-24: AFAIK the one case where this can be an issue is with the "Set-Cookie:" header, because cookies can use date formats that include commas so splitting the result back up when done is nontrivial (but not impossible). Maybe there is some valid way to escape commas in the header value itself. There might also be rare apps that care about ordering of headers, but this seems unlikely. (If you concatenate you can't perfectly preserver ordering in all cases, as you could have A: B: A: B:).