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Subject: bug#19439: [PATCH] gnu: Add erlang.
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:07:51 +0100
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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=E2=80=99.