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RFC 6266, "Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)", June 2011

Source of RFC: httpbis (wit)

Errata ID: 5383
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Magnar Ovedal Myrtveit
Date Reported: 2018-06-07
Rejected by: Francesca Palombini
Date Rejected: 2022-11-09

Section 4.1 says:

     disp-ext-parm       = token "=" value
                         | ext-token "=" ext-value
     ext-token           = <the characters in token, followed by "*">

   Defined in [RFC2616]:

     token         = <token, defined in [RFC2616], Section 2.2>
     quoted-string = <quoted-string, defined in [RFC2616], Section 2.2>
     value         = <value, defined in [RFC2616], Section 3.6>
                   ; token | quoted-string

   Defined in [RFC5987]:

     ext-value   = <ext-value, defined in [RFC5987], Section 3.2>

It should say:

     disp-ext-parm       = parmname "=" value
                         | ext-parmname "=" ext-value
     ext-parmname        = <the characters in parmname, followed by "*">

   Defined in [RFC2616]:

     quoted-string = <quoted-string, defined in [RFC2616], Section 2.2>
     value         = <value, defined in [RFC2616], Section 3.6>
                   ; token | quoted-string

   Defined in [RFC5987]:

     parmname    = <parmname, defined in [RFC5987], Section 3.2>
     ext-value   = <ext-value, defined in [RFC5987], Section 3.2>

Notes:

RFC 5987, Section 3.2.1, modifies the grammar from RFC 2616. These modifications should be used in RFC 6266. If not, it is impossible to determine whether a parameter should be a value or an ext-value based on the parameter name, since "*" is a valid character in token.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
The extended syntax is currently defined only for "filename", and any new parameter using the extended syntax would need to be defined in a document extending RFC 6266.

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