- From: Stephen D. Williams <sdw@lig.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 16:52:14 +0000 (GMT)
- To: ietf-lists@proper.com (Paul Hoffman)
- Cc: berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de, uri@bunyip.com
> > >Just a random thought: RFC822 does not require a space to follow the > >delimiting colon of a field name. So, does this mean that your example > >merely describes a Subject field without a leading space? Or does it > >mean that the mailserver URL should always cause a space to be added > >in the final message? I agree, but don't have time to look it up today, that the spec requires a space after the :... Almost positive, and I've seen parsing code that insists on it. Just as the blank line delimits the header, the space delimits the tag. (Technically, the colon does, and I wouldn't want to try having a : in the tag, but the space further delimits it.) Why reply if I don't have time to get the spec? I don't know... > Neither. It means that, even though most of us are used to seeing things > like "Subject: list" in our mail clients, people should not create URLs > like <mailserver://bigstate.edu/Subject:%20list/>. The leading space (which > must be encoded) is superfluous, and may be confusing to some mail servers > who expect no leading whitespace in the Subject header. > > > --Paul Hoffman > --Proper Publishing > > > -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Senior Consultant 510.503.9227 CA Page 513.496.5223 OH Page BA Aug94-Dec95 OO R&D AI:NN/ES crypto By Buggy: 2464 Rosina Dr., Miamisburg, OH 45342-6430 Firewalls/WWW servers ICBM: 39 38 34N 84 17 12W home, 37 58 41N 122 01 48W work Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.29Nov94
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