Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#414 closed design (fixed)

Message Parsing Strictness

Reported by: mnot@… Owned by: draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 22
Component: p1-messaging Severity: In WG Last Call
Keywords: Cc:

Description

3.5 Message Parsing Robustness -- "When a server listening only for HTTP request messages, or processing what appears from the start-line to be an HTTP request message, receives a sequence of octets that does not match the HTTP-message grammar aside from the robustness exceptions listed above, the server must respond with an HTTP/1.1 400 (Bad Request) response." This makes several existing implementations non-conformant (because they silently digest whitespace in those empty lines). See also the issue above about Tolerant Applications and SP/HT in the top-line.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by fielding@…

  • Milestone changed from unassigned to 22
  • Resolution set to incorporated
  • Status changed from new to closed

From [2028]:

Expand on message parsing robustness regarding whitespace. Clarify that whitespace-delimited parsing by recipients is allowed.

Add requirement on recipients of whitespace between start-line and first header field to be consistent with implementations and safe from the header spoofing issues.

Reduce ABNF conformance by recipients to a SHOULD.

Addresses #411, #412, and #414

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by mnot@…

  • Resolution incorporated deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by mnot@…

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from reopened to closed
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