- From: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:12:24 -0800
- To: Ross Patterson <RossP@ss1.reston.vmd.sterling.com>
- Cc: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> In section 4.1 "General Syntax", the statements > "In the interest of robustness, servers SHOULD ignore any empty > line(s) received where a Request-Line is expected." > and > "In other words, if the server is reading the protocol stream at > the beginning of a message and receives a CRLF first, it SHOULD > ignore the CRLF." > state the same requirement in different forms. Unless they're needed > for other reasons, I suggest either deleting one of them or changing > one of the "SHOULD"s to "should". > A lower case should is appropriate in the second sentenc... I don't want to delete the second sentence, as it isn't obvious what problem is being solved unless you are a BNF guru, and scratch your head for a while. - Jim
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