[whatwg] [hybi] WebSocket sub protocol name.

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Fumitoshi Ukai (éµ~\飼æ~V~Gæ~U~O) wrote:
> 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?

There doesn't seem to be a good reason to exclude them, and excluding them 
would lead to a more complicated processing model.

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