Re: Help needed on http methods and regular expressions

[David Blevins]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 7:35 PM, David Jencks wrote:

On Jan 4, 2007, at 6:12 PM, David Blevins wrote:

On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:27 PM, David Jencks wrote:

Chris Cardona has been trying to test the jacc 1.1 extended http- method support by deploying slide (GERONIMO-1747) and I don't know enough about regular expressions to see where the problem is.

The http 1.1 spec says:

(5.1.1)       extension-method = token

(2.2)

       token          = 1*<any CHAR except CTLs or separators>
       separators     = "(" | ")" | "<" | ">" | "@"
                      | "," | ";" | ":" | "\" | <">
                      | "/" | "[" | "]" | "?" | "="
                      | "{" | "}" | SP | HT

       CHAR           = <any US-ASCII character (octets 0 - 127)>

       CTL            = <any US-ASCII control character
                        (octets 0 - 31) and DEL (127)>

I think this means a hyphen is allowed in an extension-method.

It means hypen is not allowed. I.e. ascii 0-127 is allowed except 0-31,32,34,40,41,44,47,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,91,92,93,123,125

I'm kinda confused here. According to http://www.asciitable.com/ hyphen is 45 which is not in your list of exclusions, not a control character, and I might be blind but I don't see it in the http spec list of separators. Why exactly is hyphen not allowed?

Whoop. My bad. Now I'm just as confused as you.

-David

thanks
david jencks

-David

The web-app 2.5 schema says:

  <xsd:simpleType name="http-methodType">
    <xsd:annotation>

      <xsd:documentation>

        A HTTP method type as defined in HTTP 1.1 section 2.2.

      </xsd:documentation>
    </xsd:annotation>

     <xsd:restriction base="xsd:token">
         <xsd:pattern value="[\p{L}-[\p{Cc}\p{Z}]]+"/>
     </xsd:restriction>

  </xsd:simpleType>

I have roughly no clue what that means.

Xmlbeans is complaining:

cvc-datatype-valid.1.1: string value 'VERSION-CONTROL' does not match patter n for http-methodType in namespace http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/ javaee, error: cvc -datatype-valid.1.1: string value 'BASELINE-CONTROL' does not match pattern for

http-methodType in namespace http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee]

I see 3 possiblilites:

1. I'm wrong and http 1.1 spec does not allow hyphens in extension methods 2. sun is wrong and the regexp in http-methodType means something other than the definition in the http 1.1 spec 3. xmlbeans is wrong and is not interpreting the regexp in the schema correctly.

Anyone have a clue?
Help!

thanks
david jencks