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Bug #5199

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Multi-valued request/response headers

Added by Martynas Jusevicius almost 2 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

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SaxonJS 3.0
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2022-01-08
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Description

Looks like multi-values are not supported in 2.3 because headers type is map(xs:string, xs:string). https://www.saxonica.com/saxon-js/documentation2/index.html#!development/http

Maybe the type should be map(xs:string, xs:string*)?

A similar issue to the URL param parsing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68944773/parsing-a-url-query-string-into-a-map-of-parameters-with-xpath

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Updated by Norm Tovey-Walsh over 1 year ago

  • Sprint/Milestone set to SaxonJS 3.0
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Updated by Martynas Jusevicius over 1 year ago

Another manifestation of this is that given request headers with repeat names, for example

Link: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Read>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode
Link: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Write>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode
Link: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Control>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode
Link: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Append>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode

?headers?link seems to return only the first value:

<xsl:message>?headers?link: <xsl:value-of select="?headers?link"/>

Output:

xsl:message: ?headers?link: <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Read>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode

Executing the same request as fetch in the Firefox console, I get concatenated values from all Link headers:

<http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Read>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode, <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Write>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode, <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Control>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode, <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Append>; rel=http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode

That seems to be the correct behavior. RFC7230 3.2.2. Field Order says:

A recipient MAY combine multiple header fields with the same field name into one "field-name: field-value" pair, without changing the semantics of the message, by appending each subsequent field value to the combined field value in order, separated by a comma. The order in which header fields with the same field name are received is therefore significant to the interpretation of the combined field value; a proxy MUST NOT change the order of these field values when forwarding a message.

Could this be addressed in Saxon-JS 2.x?

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