Re: Second round for new URL scheme (mailserver)
Jon P. Knight (J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk)
Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:07:53 +0000 (GMT)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:07:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Jon P. Knight" <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Second round for new URL scheme (mailserver)
To: Dirk Herr-Hoyman <hoymand@gate.net>
Cc: Paul Hoffman <ietf-lists@proper.com>, uri@bunyip.com
In-Reply-To: <ab38a5b601021004724c@[199.227.1.84]>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9501101552.O13319-a100000@suna>
On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
> Paul, I see a couple of problems here. First, you are assuming the body
> only has a single line. This is not always true, many mail servers let you
> send multiple commands on multiple lines. The / is my original proposal
> was meant to specify the end of line. Here, it's just a separator. For
> this to work, you would have to encode an end of line, which was something
> I was trying to avoid.
Surely having / specify the end of line *is* an encoding of the end of
line? Is using %0A or whatever so much worse? Why?
Jon
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