- From: <TROTH@ua1vm.ua.edu>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 11:09:22 CST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
To compute an MD5 signature for textual material,
I would like to see the following applied:
o trailing white space stripped
o remaining whitespace reduced to single blanks
o CR/LF ignored
The justification for this is that something cut-n-pasted
should still pass. No, we're not going to splice the TCP stream
and insert cut-n-pasted text, but the above will make digests work on
the widest range of interoperable platforms. What I'm saying is that
cut-n-paste-ability isn't the goal, it represents a sample of the
kind of mangling that might happen when the text crosses some boundaries.
Interoperability is the goal. Make MD5 verification work cross-platform.
--
Rick Troth <troth@casita.houston.tx.us>, Houston, Texas, USA
http://casita.houston.tx.us/~troth/
Received on Tuesday, 2 April 1996 15:43:26 UTC