Re: Does Reason-Phrase allow LWS?

* Julian Reschke wrote:
>Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>> * Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> Looking at...:
>>>
>>>     TEXT           = <any OCTET except CTLs,
>>>                      but including LWS>
>>>     LWS            = [CRLF] 1*( SP | HT )
>>>     CRLF           = CR LF
>>>
>>>     Reason-Phrase  = *<TEXT, excluding CR, LF>
>>>
>>> So was the real intent to say: any OCTET except CTLs?
>> 
>> That would disallow spaces. This is literally:
>
>No, it wouldn't. TEXT includes SP.

But "any OCTET except CTLs" does not since CTL includes SP.

>>   OCTET - CTL + LWS - CR - LF
>> 
>> Which is the same as
>> 
>>   OCTET - CTL + SP + HT
>
>If that's really the intet, we better say it explicitly.
>
>So, is HT allowed in reason phrases?

According to RFC 2616 it is, because LWS includes it.
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Received on Friday, 23 November 2007 16:30:45 UTC