Re: HTTP 1.1 issue 05: 4.2 Message Headers
Jim Gettys (jg@pa.dec.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 20:20:36 -0800
> From: Ross Patterson <RossP@SS1.Reston.VMD.Sterling.Com>
> Resent-From: Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 23:43:14 +0100 (BST)
> To: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: HTTP 1.1 issue 05: 4.2 Message Headers
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> In section 4.2 "Message Headers", the statement
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> "It MUST be possible to combine the multiple header fields into
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> one "field-name: field-value" pair, without changing the semantics
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> of the message, by appending each subsequent field-value to the
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> first, each separated by a comma."
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> is a restatement of the preceding requirement,
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> "Multiple message-header fields with the same field-name MAY be
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> present in a message if and only if the entire field-value for
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> that header field is defined as a comma-separated list [i.e.,
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> #(values)]."
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> placing a requirement upon future extensions to the protocol rather than
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> on implementations of HTTP 1.1. I think the "MUST" should be changed to
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> a "must".
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> Ross Patterson
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> VM Software Division
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> Sterling Software, Inc.
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