[erlang-questions] Documentation error in Diameter AVP specification?

[Jeroen Koops]

Yes, it's R14B03 -- so for now I'll just do nothing, move to R15, or wait
for RFC3588bis to become current. Thanks all!

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Anders Svensson <anders.otp@REDACTED>wrote:

> Is this with an R14 diameterc? R15B diameterc should accept both
> "Diameter-Header" and "Diameter Header".
>
> RFC 3588 is inconsistent in its usage, specifying "Diameter-Header" in
> the ABNF but "Diameter Header" in all of its command definitions. The
> current draft RFC fixes this.
>
> /Anders, Erlang/OTP Ericsson
>
>
>
> RFC 3588 uses the former in its ABNF but the latter in all of its
> command definitions
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Jeroen Koops <koops.j@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In the documentation for the Diameter dict-file format,
> > at http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/diameter_dict.html, it says, under the
> > @messages tag:
> >
> >> Defines the messages of the application. The section content consists of
> >> definitions of the form specified in
> >> section 3.2 of RFC 3588, "Command Code ABNF specification".
> >
> > The examples given show a diameter specified as follows: < Diameter
> Header:
> > 287, REQ, PXY >
> >
> > However, RFC3588 specifies that a header should be specified as:
> >
> >     header = "<" Diameter-Header:" command-id [r-bit] [p-bit] [e-bit]
> > [application-id]">"
> >
> > Note the dash in Diameter-Header. Using a dash in a .dia file causes an
> > error when compiling the file with diameterc, so it seems that diameterc
> > does not completely follow RFC3588.
> >
> > Am I misunderstanding something here, or is this a bug for which I can
> > submit a patch? The best patch I can think of is to modify diameterc in
> such
> > a way that both 'Diameter-Header' and 'Diameter Header' are accepted,
> with a
> > note in the document saying that 'Diameter Header' is accepted but
> > deprecated. An easier patch would jus add a note to the documentation
> > pointing out the difference with the RFC.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeroen Koops
> >
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> >
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Jeroen Koops

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