Subject: Closing #30: Header LWS

From: Mark Nottingham <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:58:11 +1000

With the ABNF changes and explicit whitespace in the -06 drafts, the  
editors believe that issue #30 is addressed.

Specifically;

1. Is LWS permitted between the field-name and colon?

No, because this is a security issue. Relevant text from p1:

> No whitespace is allowed between the header field-name and colon.  
> For security reasons, any request message received containing such  
> whitespace MUST be rejected with a response code of 400 (Bad  
> Request) and any such whitespace in a response message MUST be  
> removed.

2. What about LWS before the field-name?

Not allowed in the proposed grammar.

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