Re: luasocket.http and repeating headers

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Diego Nehab wrote:
>
> > Just noticed that luasocket.http concatenates repeating headers with a
> > comma which makes them impossible to parse if the header value itself
> > contains a comma.
>
> Do you have a specific case in mind? If so, please be more
> specific. I believe cookies with dates can be parsed without
> any problem, if that is what you are talking about.

Not all headers can be combined in this way. RFC 2616 says:

   Multiple message-header fields with the same field-name MAY be
   present in a message if and only if the entire field-value for that
   header field is defined as a comma-separated list [i.e., #(values)].

Tony.
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