**[Josh King](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=kingjoshdavid)** opened **[SPR-13111](https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-13111?redirect=false)** and commented Spring messaging currently throws a StompConversionException when an incoming message header does not have a value. Stomp 1.1 and 1.2 spec shows support for headers with empty values https://stomp.github.io/stomp-specification-1.1.html#Augmented_BNF https://stomp.github.io/stomp-specification-1.2.html#Augmented_BNF --- **Affects:** 4.1.6 **Issue Links:** - #17995 StompDecoder fails for partial headers containing escape sequence **Referenced from:** commits https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/7b365583e39f6195a7b2d3b149b9a5290f3ab01f