On Mon 04 Jan 2016 06:20, Steve Sprang <steve.spr...@gmail.com> writes:
> From http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.2.1.tar.gz... > ERROR: Bad qstring header component: kMSMAn68110840 Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> skribis: > The Etag value is invalid: > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232#section-2.3 > > We could relax Guile's etag parser to assume that an etag not starting > with either W/ or " is a strong etag without quotes. To do that you > would patch guile's http.scm to say: > > (define (parse-entity-tag val) > (cond > ((string-prefix? "W/" val) (cons (parse-qstring val 2) #f)) > ((string-prefix? "\"" val) (cons (parse-qstring val) #t)) > (else (cons val #t)))) > > Considering that this error has come up a few times and that the less > strict parser doesn't change the Guile programming interface or endanger > the web in any significant way, I think changing Guile's HTTP parser > would be OK. > > Thoughts? Indeed, this has been reported a few times: http://bugs.gnu.org/19439 I think we should implement the proposed change. Could you look into it? Thanks, Ludo’.
