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Re: Details...

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 03:08:30 -0700
To: ben@algroup.co.uk
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <9606030308.aa08564@paris.ics.uci.edu> 
>> > Should tspecials include "#"?
>> > 
>> > 'qdtext         = <any TEXT except <"> and CTLs,
>> >                         but including LWS>'
>> > should read
>> > 
>> > 'qdtext         = <any TEXT except <"> and CTLs>'
>> 
>> Nope.  Quoted text can indeed be broken over multiple lines.
>> I bet it would break a few popular clients, too.
> 
> Ahem. TEXT already includes LWS, and, in fact, excludes CTLs, so it should be
> even shorter:
> 
> 'qdtext         = <any TEXT except <">>'

DOH!  Ben is quite right.  Strange that I goofed this one, but not ctext ...


 ...Roy T. Fielding
    Department of Information & Computer Science    (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
    University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425    fax:+1(714)824-4056
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Monday, 3 June 1996 03:14:50 EDT

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