On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 14:31 +0000, sebb wrote:
> On 20/11/05, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:50 +0000, sebb wrote:
> > > > I respectfully disagree. In the HTTP spec quote marks are always
> > > > designated as <">. See request-digest in the example above
> > >
> > > I can't find qop-value defined anywhere as a quoted string, but nor
> > > can I find it defined as a non-quoted string.
> > >
> > > But why does the RFC use the unq() function on qop-value unless it is
> > > a quoted string?
> > >
> > > There are some other examples of the use of unq() - e.g. realm-value -
> > > in each case all of the operands are defined as being quoted strings.
> > >
> >
> > All right. This is how it goes
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Hope this makes things clearer
> 
> Indeed it does, thanks very much - sorry to put you to the trouble.
> Dunno how I missed the example...
> 

No trouble of what so ever

> Why the RFC uses unq() on qop-value is a mystery - the only purpose
> seems to be to confuse readers ;-)
> 

Very much so. There are other discrepancies and contradictions in the
RFC2617 we know of

> It will be interesting to find out what combination of quotes is
> accepted by the Map Point service ... if it turns out that quite a few
> servers insist on quotes, then it might be worth making this an
> option.
> 

If unquoted qop-value does turn out to be the only reason the digest
response gets rejected, we will consider providing a parameter to always
enclose qop-value in quotes

> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> 
> Thanks for your patience.
> 

No worries. Thanks for taking interest in HttpClient

Oleg

> S.
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