Hi

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Lutz Horn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 20.07.2011 03:20, schrieb Barkley, Christopher:
>> Should the tag(String) method add the quotes to have consistent
>> behavior with the tag(EntityTag) method?
>
> I think both values are legal according to HTTP/1.1. The content of a
> header field can contain:
>
>> the OCTETs making up the field-value and consisting of either *TEXT
>> or combinations of token, separators, and quoted-string>
>
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2
>
> The value 'foo' (without quotes) is legal, as is '"foo"' (with quotes).
>
> What happens with a value that dos not pass as a token?
>
Thanks for this clarification.
I don't mind having tag(String) produce the same output as
tag(EntityTag) just for consistency's sake.
Cheers, Sergey

> Lutz
>



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