[whatwg] WebSocket sub protocol name.

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Fumitoshi Ukai (éµ~\飼æ~V~Gæ~U~O) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> 
> In HTTP, field-content is TEXT or combinations of token, separators, and 
> quoted-string. TEXT, or token, separators excludes CTLs. So, we must use 
> quoted-string in WebSocket-Protocol: if protocol contains CTLs?

Oh, I forgot that HTTP had the no-CTL restriction. Good point. I've 
updated the spec to be consistent with this.


> And, why is it limited to ASCII instead of UTF-8?

Because the HTTP working group refuse to allow UTF-8 in HTTP headers for 
reasons that I don't really understand, and the handshake is supposed to 
be valid HTTP.


On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> There isn't a good reason to disallow control characters in a *name*????

Not as far as I can tell, no... what would a good reason be?

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