On 2012-01-16 03:50, =JeffH wrote:
...
though, I remain curious as to why the STS parsing in Firefox & Chrome
is apparently each a one-off and doesn't use the more generic HTTP
header-field parsing routines that are available and which appear to
handle quoted-string, arbitrary header field parameter ordering, etc.
...

Well. One reason for that is that STS is indeed different from other header fields (for instance, things like Content-Type, Expect, or Cache-Control).

To enable UAs to re-use code, you need to specify the header field so that code can indeed be re-used.

Best regards, Julian
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