Opened 14 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#67 closed design (fixed)

Quoting Charsets

Reported by: mnot@… Owned by: julian.reschke@…
Priority: Milestone: 03
Component: p3-payload Severity:
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Description

The BNF definition of the "Content-Type" production does not utiilize the "charset" production defined in section 3.4, and therefore an occasional reader of RFC2616 who follows the BNF dependencies, does not necessarily notice section 3.4 and hence arrives at the conclusion that the quoted and unquoted form are both equally ok.

Attachments (2)

i67.diff​ (3.9 KB) - added by julian.reschke@… 13 years ago.
proposed change for part 3
i67-roy.diff​ (625 bytes) - added by fielding@… 13 years ago.
Rephrase to focus on parameter values, not parameters.

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Change History (15)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by mnot@…

I suggest to fix this by utilizing the "charset" production somewhere in the "Content-Type" production. Maybe at the level of "media-type". In addition, an explicit reference to section 3.4 could be added to the description of Content-Type in section 14.17.

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by mnot@…

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comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by fielding@…

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comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by fielding@…

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There is some confusion here. First, HTTP allows both quoted and unquoted forms in Content-Type, and that certainly isn't going to change. However, HTTP only uses the charset ABNF production in Accept-Charset, and thus is currently defined to only allow tokens in Accept-Charset.

Should Accept-Charset allow charset quoted strings? I don't think so. Should the charset production be removed to reduce the confusion? Perhaps. This is really a design issue.

This would be a lot easier if IANA kept a decent registry for charset that only included the "MIME preferred names". We may need to request that in the IANA considerations.

comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by mnot@…

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comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by mnot@…

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comment:7 Changed 13 years ago by mnot@…

Proposal:

  • leave accept-charset as-is.
  • explicitly allow all media-type parameters defined as a token to occur as a quoted-string, and make them equivalent (p2 section 3.3).

comment:8 Changed 13 years ago by mnot@…

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Proposal accepted.

comment:9 Changed 13 years ago by julian.reschke@…

From [250]:

Improve alignment in BNF (related to #67)

comment:10 Changed 13 years ago by julian.reschke@…

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Changed 13 years ago by julian.reschke@…

proposed change for part 3

comment:11 Changed 13 years ago by julian.reschke@…

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Fixed in [251]:

Resolve #67: media-range: token and quoted-string notation for parameters is equivalent (closes #67).

Changed 13 years ago by fielding@…

Rephrase to focus on parameter values, not parameters.

comment:12 Changed 13 years ago by fielding@…

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The change in [251] incorrectly refers to parameters instead of parameter values. I have rephrased it in the second attachment.

comment:13 Changed 13 years ago by julian.reschke@…

  • Resolution set to fixed
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Fixed in [297]:

Resolve #67: Adopt rephrasing of the statement proposed by Roy (closes #67).

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