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Your arguments are short sighted, if it was as easy as just reading RFC no language would have problems but: - RFC are inconsistent - out of touch with the re
by Thaxll 6y ago
Your arguments are short sighted, if it was as easy as just reading RFC no language would have problems but:
- RFC are inconsistent
- out of touch with the real world
- contain security issues
- not clear
- contradict themselves
So you can look at three majors HTTP server and sometimes they will implement / allow things differently becauset they have no other choice.
- benibela 6y agoOr you just want to interact with a few servers, so you implement what the servers do In my case I wanted to interact with a few servers and not write a HTTP client, so I used an existing HTTP client library. Turns out, the library did not handle those servers, so I had to write the header parsing myself, at least the cookie parsing. I wonder if there are RFC 2047 cookies and you need to parse them, or just send them back as they came