bug#10109: [PATCH] (web http): list-style headers do not validate

[Daniel Hartwig]

Hello again

My apologies for not noticing earlier, but I have spotted a couple
minor issues with both the previous patch and original code that are
corrected by the attached. All relate to the "Cache-Control" header:

- `max-stale' has optional value (previous code requires it)
- some directives do not have values (`no-store', etc.)
- there are `cache-extension' directives that may or may not have a value

Attached patch tidies this up, with explicit validation of all defined
directives, though it leaves open one issue with the cache-extension
directives:

;; cache-extension = token [ "=" ( token | quoted-string ) ]
scheme@(web http)> (read-header (open-input-string "Cache-Control:
foo=\"qstring\"\r\n"))
$102 = cache-control
$103 = ((foo . "qstring"))
scheme@(web http)> (write-header 'cache-control $103
(current-output-port)) (newline)
Cache-Control: foo=qstring

You see quotes around `qstring' are dropped, `parse-key-value-list'
appears inadequate to distinguish between a token and quoted-string
when passing values to the `val-parser'.  This looks like it will
raise itself in edge cases for some other headers.  Will file a new
bug if needed after investigation.


Regards

Daniel

On 23 November 2011 02:18, Daniel Hartwig <address@hidden> wrote:
> Package: guile
> Version: 2.0.3
> Tags: patch
>
> Many of the list-style headers from (web http) do not validate
> correctly.  The test suite only checks that the header's parse and
> does not test the associated validators.
>
> Attached is a very quick patch (0002) which exposes the failing
> validators through the test-suite:
>
> $ ./guile-test tests/web-http.test
> Running tests/web-http.test
> ...
> FAIL: tests/web-http.test: general headers: cache-control:
> "no-transform" -> (no-transform)
> [...]

0001-Extend-handling-of-Cache-Control-header.patch
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