Whereas if propagation uses SINGLE mode, it accepts a header like this:
b3: 3918a670ff714ce592959c91b0a8cbcb-e506eba76ec9cfff-1
Which is correct, as of https://github.com/openzipkin/b3-propagation#single-header which states that "...the last two fields are optional".
I think this should be the case when the values arrive as separated headers as well.
When using separate headers (MULTI mode) in request as input to Brave propagation, all the X-B3-TraceId, X-B3-SpanId and X-B3-ParentSpanId headers are mandatory, otherwise not processed, because of this condition triplet: https://github.com/openzipkin/brave/blob/5.14.1/brave/src/main/java/brave/propagation/B3Propagation.java#L320-L322
Whereas if propagation uses SINGLE mode, it accepts a header like this:
b3: 3918a670ff714ce592959c91b0a8cbcb-e506eba76ec9cfff-1Which is correct, as of https://github.com/openzipkin/b3-propagation#single-header which states that "...the last two fields are optional". I think this should be the case when the values arrive as separated headers as well.