[occi-wg] HTTP Header Serialization Format, use of Attribute header

[Ralf Nyren]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:30:41 +0200, Edmonds, AndrewX  
<andrewx.edmonds at intel.com> wrote:

> Speaking from an implementer's point of view (mine) removal of  
> "Attribute:" has made parsing of header key/values easier. Personally, I  
> have no strong tie to either approach.

I would beg to differ on that point :)
I am also an implementor and using the Attribute header I can just reuse  
the same base functionality as for parsing Category and Link headers.
Since RFC2616 says multiple header values can be represented both as  
comma-separated lists and multiple header lines the code for parsing this  
with proper escaping of quotes etc will have to be present anyway.

regards, Ralf