private static bool TrySetOptionalTokenList( NameValueHeaderValue nameValue, ref bool boolField, ref ICollection <StringSegment> destination) { Contract.Requires(nameValue != null); if (nameValue.Value == null) { boolField = true; return(true); } // We need the string to be at least 3 chars long: 2x quotes and at least 1 character. Also make sure we // have a quoted string. Note that NameValueHeaderValue will never have leading/trailing whitespaces. var valueString = nameValue.Value; if ((valueString.Length < 3) || (valueString[0] != '\"') || (valueString[valueString.Length - 1] != '\"')) { return(false); } // We have a quoted string. Now verify that the string contains a list of valid tokens separated by ','. var current = 1; // skip the initial '"' character. var maxLength = valueString.Length - 1; // -1 because we don't want to parse the final '"'. var separatorFound = false; var originalValueCount = destination == null ? 0 : destination.Count; while (current < maxLength) { current = HeaderUtilities.GetNextNonEmptyOrWhitespaceIndex(valueString, current, true, out separatorFound); if (current == maxLength) { break; } var tokenLength = HttpRuleParser.GetTokenLength(valueString, current); if (tokenLength == 0) { // We already skipped whitespaces and separators. If we don't have a token it must be an invalid // character. return(false); } if (destination == null) { destination = new ObjectCollection <StringSegment>(CheckIsValidTokenAction); } destination.Add(valueString.Subsegment(current, tokenLength)); current = current + tokenLength; } // After parsing a valid token list, we expect to have at least one value if ((destination != null) && (destination.Count > originalValueCount)) { boolField = true; return(true); } return(false); }