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Available-Dictionary: : =: It seems very odd to use a colon as starting and ending delimiter when the header name is already using a colon. Wouldn’t a comma
by Y-bar 1y ago
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It seems very odd to use a colon as starting and ending delimiter when the header name is already using a colon. Wouldn’t a comma or semicolon work better?
- judofyr 1y agoIt’s encoded using the spec that binary data in headers should be enclosed by colons: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8941.html#name-byte-sequences https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8941.html#name-byte-sequen...
- Y-bar 1y agoOh, thanks, it looked like a string such as a hash or base64 encoded data, not binary. Don’t think I have ever seen a use case for binary data like this in a header before.