- From: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:02:54 -0600
- To: <jamie@shareable.org>, <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mark Nottingham wrote: > > Yes; we looked at disallowing it, but implementations that support > > folding do already support whitespace-only lines. We don't want to > > make them non-conforming. Also, it made the ABNF really, really ugly. > > Really. > > > > We're considering discouraging producing all-whitespace continuation > > lines in prose. Thoughts? > > All continuation lines are discouraged; maybe that could be worded a > little more strongly. With the word "discouraged" :-) Mark already said "[S]enders must not produce messages that include LWS folding[.]" It would be confusing to make LWS folding a MUST NOT and then make a special case of it "discouraged." - Brian
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