[occi-wg] HTTP Header Serialization Format, use of Attribute header
Edmonds, AndrewX
andrewx.edmonds at intel.com
Mon Aug 16 09:19:05 CDT 2010
Cheers Ralf :-)
As we use '.' as a character to denote namespace delineation we should also add this to the list of separators, incl. 2616.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Nyren [mailto:ralf at nyren.net]
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 3:12 PM
To: Andy Edmonds
Cc: Edmonds, AndrewX; occi-wg at ogf.org
Subject: Re: [occi-wg] HTTP Header Serialization Format, use of Attribute header
Andy,
I continue this thread to discuss your comments in the wiki. Cut-n-paste
from wiki:
"HTTP header field values which contain separator characters MUST be
properly quoted according to RFC 2616.
Is this necessary? It could be assumed that the value of the header is the
text immediately following the '=' character.
Would be useful to have a list of these separator characters"
Yes, it is necessary. If you have an attribute containing a comma (",")
you would break the comma-separated list representation of HTTP header
field values.
According to RFC2616 the following two examples are be equivalent.
Attribute: foo="bar,foo"
Attribute: key=value
Attribute: foo="bar,foo", key=value
The list of separators are specified in RFC2616.
regards, Ralf
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