Subject: #306: does etag value really use quoted-string

From: Mark Nottingham <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:35:21 +1000

<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/306>

IIRC we checked various implementations and found that many don't handle ETags as a quoted-string; therefore, the safe/sensible thing to do is to re-define ETag as a something else; i.e., something with the same syntax, but without any special semantic for backslashes.

We might also caution against including backslashes in them in prose, since it isn't interoperable.

Thoughts / objections?

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