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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 19439@debbugs.gnu.org,
	Steve Sprang <steve.sprang@gmail.com>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add erlang.
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:07:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wprmg088.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fjpzi07.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:44:24 +0100")

On Mon 04 Jan 2016 06:20, Steve Sprang <steve.sprang@gmail.com> writes:

> From http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.2.1.tar.gz...
> ERROR: Bad qstring header component: kMSMAn68110840

Andy Wingo <wingo@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’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-04  3:56 [PATCH] gnu: Add erlang Steve Sprang
2016-01-04  4:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-04  5:20   ` Steve Sprang
2016-01-04  6:23     ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-04 11:44     ` Andy Wingo
2016-01-04 12:13       ` Nala Ginrut
2016-01-06 16:07       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-01-07  9:56         ` Andy Wingo
2016-02-06 20:45           ` Steve Sprang
2016-02-13  0:44             ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-13 21:12               ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-21 20:54                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-17  0:18                   ` Steve Sprang
2016-03-17  4:21                     ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-17  5:00                       ` Steve Sprang
2016-03-21 15:40                         ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-22 20:59                           ` Pjotr Prins
2016-03-22 21:21                             ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-24  2:41                             ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-24 16:57                               ` Pjotr Prins
2016-03-24 22:53                                 ` gnu: Add elixir. (WIP) Pjotr Prins
2016-03-25 16:50                                   ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-22 19:42           ` bug#19439: [PATCH] gnu: Add erlang Andy Wingo
2016-01-06 16:07       ` Ludovic Courtès

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