Re: HTTP 1.1 spec (page 15)

Roy T. Fielding (fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:54:06 -0800 

Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
> I wonder what the specification says about ``\)'' within a comment and
> about ``\"'' within a quoted-string. To my interpretation of the specs
> the character will be "quoted" but according to the grammar will
> terminate the element anyhow.

Hmmm, that's odd -- it was supposed to say

    comment        = "(" *( ctext | quoted-pair | comment ) ")"

    quoted-string  = ( <"> *( qdtext | quoted-pair ) <"> )

I guess that should be put on the errata list.

.....Roy