Remove Whitspaces in header values

[big-r81]

Hi,

send a example request with the following header like this:

curl -v --location 'http://127.0.0.1:15984/' --header 'X-Auth-Roles:      test, test2,test3,       test4,    test5     ,        test6     '

*   Trying 127.0.0.1:15984...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 15984 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:15984
> User-Agent: curl/7.74.0
> Accept: */*
> X-Auth-Roles:      test, test2,test3,       test4,    test5     ,        test6     

The header is inserted and has the following data:

{"X-Auth-Roles","test, test2,test3,       test4,    test5     ,        test6     "}

RFC 7230 says:

A field value might be preceded and/or followed by optional
whitespace (OWS); a single SP preceding the field-value is preferred
for consistent readability by humans.  The field value does not
include any leading or trailing whitespace: OWS occurring before the
first non-whitespace octet of the field value or after the last
non-whitespace octet of the field value ought to be excluded by
parsers when extracting the field value from a header field.

So, I think the trailing WS from the above example should be defnitly removed before insertion and
reading the RFC the ws between the values of the header field should be trimmed with only on ws.

Result should be:

{"X-Auth-Roles","test, test2, test3, test4, test5, test6"}

On insertion (default/3, enter/3, insert/3) in mochiweb_headers.erl, nothing of the input is trimmed.

[rnewson]

leading and trailing OWS should, imo, be removed by mochiweb. Internal whitespace should not be.

[big-r81]

Ok, thx, then I update my expected result (to be RFC compliant) to

{"X-Auth-Roles","test, test2,test3,       test4,    test5     ,        test6"}