qdtext BNF

[mnot@…]

RFC 2616 reads:

A string of text is parsed as a single word if it is quoted using double-quote marks.

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

The backslash character ("\") MAY be used as a single-character quoting mechanism only within quoted-string and comment constructs.

quoted-pair    = "\" CHAR

I wrote a regular expression based on the RFC 2616 definition, and that allows "foo\" as a quoted-string. That's not intended, is it?

[mnot@…]

I think the qdtext syntax should say this instead:

qdtext         = <any TEXT except <"> and "\">

(It might also want to say "excluding" instead of "except", for consistency with ctext a few lines earlier).

[julian.reschke@…]

Resolving according to <​http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-04.html#rfc.issue.i31-qdtext-bnf> and <​http://www.w3.org/2007/03/18-rfc2616-minutes.html#action13>.

[julian.reschke@…]

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