Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-18.txt> (Structured Field Values for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

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In message <4859a11f-5649-b633-f43b-facf036e61c7@xxxxxx>, Julian Reschke writes
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>Related to this: it just occurred to me that:
>
>   Test: Foo
>   Test:
>   Test: Bar
>
>yields different results for fields using HTTP's list notation, and
>structured header fields.
>
>In the former case, the combined value is equivalent to
>
>   Test: Foo, Bar
>
>while in the latter case, the field is malformed.
>
>I *really* think it would be better if structured header fields would
>actually be "proper" applications of the standard HTTP list ABNF.

Considering how rarely used multiple-headers are (apart from The
Cookie Mistake) I think it would be much simpler, better and wiser
to restrict SH to single, non-concatenated headers.

Ufortunately, that also runs up against the fact that we cannot
possibly know if the header we got was joined by an unwitting
intermediary.

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