RE: client requests ending \012
Edward Hibbert <EH@datcon.co.uk> Wed, 26 July 2000 09:05 UTC
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From: Edward Hibbert <EH@datcon.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: client requests ending \012
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:04:46 +0100
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I disapprove of the "must not recognise" text. I think that: - existing implementations will ignore this text in the proven interest of interoperability - any new implementor who follows the RFC will become very frustrated when it later emerges that the RFC is explicitly encouraging them to add interop problems to their code. There's an analogy in the X.400 world, where the spec is much tighter and there are people who test implementations for conformance. Even that doesn't stop interop problems, and since it is the suppliers of the most correct implementations who are typically more responsive to fixing problems than the worse implementations which are violating the spec, the policy of being liberal in what you accept has emerged there too. I would agree with Dan that there is no consensus on this point. Edward Hibbert DCL. -----Original Message----- From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 9:36 AM To: Paul Hoffman / IMC Cc: drums@cs.utk.edu Subject: RE: client requests ending \012 On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > The actual text from 2.3.7 reads: > > Conforming > implementations MUST NOT recognize or generate any other character or > character sequence as a line terminator. > > "MUST NOT recognize" is what is being discussed here. Quite. This seems to be a tightening up of the "be liberal in what you accept" philosophy. On the one hand, I would like to see this, but on the other hand, I don't believe you can achieve it, because it would require vast numbers of deployed MTAs to change more or less simultaneously. The genie is out of the bottle, as I keep saying. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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