- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:34:11 +0000
- To: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Cc: mnot@mnot.net, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Brian Smith wrote: > 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." Ok, make sure to capitalise the MUST NOT and I'm happy :-) -- Jamie
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