Ohhh and yes section 2.3 doesn't comply with 2.6.... but 2.6 does only
apply to "most" values.

... and you wonder why implementations of these specs sometimes get it
wrong:)

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 00:32 Greg Wilkins, <gr...@webtide.com> wrote:

> My first thought is that Nils could be right when he says that getValues
> is needlessly removing quotes.
>
> That method was never really well specified as it's based in neither the
> http nor servlets specification. It was originally a jack of all trades
> method that worked for most cases.
>
> We've not moved much of our previous handling to other methods like getCSV
> and getQualityCSV, with more precise behaviour.
>
> In this case, getCSV passed a boolean to keep quotes will probably do the
> job you need.
>
> I'll do a bit more of a review and comment more tomorrow if I get a
> chance,... But maybe Monday.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, 22:28 Joakim Erdfelt, <joa...@webtide.com> wrote:
>
>> Per the spec you linked ...
>>
>>      ETag       = entity-tag
>>
>>      entity-tag = [ weak ] opaque-tag
>>      weak       = %x57.2F ; "W/", case-sensitive
>>      opaque-tag = DQUOTE *etagc DQUOTE
>>      etagc      = %x21 / %x23-7E / obs-text
>>                 ; VCHAR except double quotes, plus obs-text
>>
>>
>> That means the "ETag" field is an "entity-tag"
>> Which can start with an optional "weak", and must have an "opaque-tag"
>>
>> The definition fo "weak" is that it is always the 2 characters "W/" and
>> the case must be preserved.
>>
>> The "opaque-tag" is almost the same as what the http/1.1 spec level
>> "quoted-string" definition is.
>> Except that it doesn't allow space character.
>>
>> Greg, what's you take on this?
>> This would mean a new Special Case handling for a field value that isn't
>> "Set-Cookie".
>> There's some accepted errata published after RFC7232 about ETag, but only
>> related to space in etagc.
>> No errata on RFC7230 about other special case handling of field-values.
>>
>> Joakim Erdfelt / joa...@webtide.com
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 4:07 PM Cantor, Scott <canto...@osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/29/20, 4:54 PM, "jetty-users-boun...@eclipse.org on behalf of
>>> Joakim Erdfelt" <jetty-users-boun...@eclipse.org on behalf of
>>> joa...@webtide.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >    Your Example 2:
>>> >    If-Match: W/"ab3>5ef1bc78", W/"5be73a9c523"
>>> >
>>>  >   This is a field of name "If-Match".
>>>  >   It has 2 values, both of which are in violation of the spec.
>>>
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232#section-2.3
>>>
>>> Am I missing something? That middle one seems to explicitly match your
>>> examples that you think are in violation...
>>>
>>> (I don't mean to barge into the thread, but I have some uses of ETag in
>>> our code stack and I want to be able to accurately assess how we're using
>>> it.)
>>>
>>> -- Scott
>>>
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