On Jun 15, 2015 6:11 PM, "Roy T. Fielding" <field...@gbiv.com> wrote: > > > On Jun 15, 2015, at 9:33 AM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > > > > Reviewing the spec, I cannot find where Sambar server is permitted to insert whitespace. I further reviewed the ABNF appendix, and it does not appear there, either. > > Right, this was a deliberate decision to reduce the number of infinite stream possibilities. > We can still read a few SP and discard for robustness, but it should be limited to the same > few characters as leading zeros.
So as things stand, this is BWS (or just drop the W :) As such we don't pass it through verbatim, so we are honoring the BWS contract of not repeating the mistake. With HttpStrict on head, we can return to Yann's original proposal of treating such headers as errors. > Sambar Server has been EOL for 7 years with no available source code for review, so it's > behavior is no longer relevant to the standard. +1
