Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add erlang.

[tomas]

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> > On Mon 04 Jan 2016 06:20, Steve Sprang <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > From http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.2.1.tar.gz...
> > > ERROR: Bad qstring header component: kMSMAn68110840
[...]

[Andy Wingo]
> > 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:

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:13:25PM +0800, Nala Ginrut wrote:
> Someone had reported the similar problem to Artanis:
> https://github.com/NalaGinrut/artanis/issues/44
> 
> It's because some client (firefox, in this case) emits wrong header [...]

Thirded. It doesn't make sense to be too strict on the InterWebs.

And we can invoke Postel's Law [1] on that, RFCs and all :-)

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle>

thanks
- -- tomás
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