Re: Status of issue #30 (Implied LWS)

On tor, 2008-11-13 at 18:06 -0800, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Yes; we looked at disallowing it, but implementations that support  
> folding do already support whitespace-only lines.

Some. Many fail, misreading it as end-of-headers...

> We don't want to  
> make them non-conforming.

It only needs to be disallowed in producing, not parsing. In fact
parsers SHOULD know how to deal with it I think.

> We're considering discouraging producing all-whitespace continuation  
> lines in prose. Thoughts?

A MUST NOT be sent in prose is the right approach I think.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Friday, 14 November 2008 22:03:23 UTC