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