Re: Structured Fields: whitespace in binary content

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Mark Nottingham writes:

> So, the obvious fix is to allow whitespace inside binary content. 
> Delimitation won't be lost, because it's ":" on both ends. The base64 
> parsers I checked already swallow whitespace in input (not surprising 
> since the motivating use case for base64 was line-wrapped MIME).

I dont see any obvious harm, and being able to "lint" IDs and RFCs
seems a worthwhile argument.


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Received on Wednesday, 28 October 2020 08:37:52 UTC