[whatwg] [hybi] WebSocket sub protocol name.

[Fumitoshi Ukai (鵜飼文敏)]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Fumitoshi Ukai (榈~\椋兼~V~G鎫U~O) wrote:
> >
> > At 1.130 of "The Web Socket API", it adds the sub-protocol name must be
> an
> > ASCII string with no U+000A LINE FEED (LF) or U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
> > characters in it.
> > But "The Web Socket protocol" 3.1 Parsing Web Socket URLs, says
> >    1.   If /protocol/ is specified but is either the empty string or
> >         contains characters that are not in the range U+0021 to U+007E,
> >         then fail this algorithm.
>
> Woops, that step is a copy-and-paste mistake from a past version. My
> apologies. I've removed that sentence; it should not have been present.
>

Thanks for fixing.


> Control characters are allowed (though using them would be silly).
>

Why are control characters (except LF and CR) allowed?

-- 
ukai


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