Re: Whitespace before responses

* Mark Nottingham wrote:
><http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-14#section-3.1> says:
>
>   In the interest of robustness, servers SHOULD ignore at least one
>   empty line received where a Request-Line is expected.  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.
>
>Should a similar approach be taken when clients parse responses?
>
>See also:
>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668168

Well, we absolutely need to come to an agreement where messages start
and where they end. I would rather ask which behavior we are more like-
ly to agree on. Apart from that it's obviously best if nothing has to
be skipped, as skipping requires more work than not skipping.
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Received on Sunday, 3 July 2011 20:57:20 UTC