Re: Header field-name token and leading spaces

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Sun, 03 March 2013 19:22 UTC

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In message <02D76B3C-BED4-4E6C-BF72-6ED327FF72E8@la-grange.net>, Karl Dubost wr
ites:

>MY QUESTION (finally) :) 
>
>Nothing is said about 
>-------------------------------------------------------
>" foo:bar"   (1 or more space/tab before the fied-name)
>-------------------------------------------------------

Actually, something is said:  It is a continuation line for
the previous header.

Unless, of course, it happens to be the second line, in which
case it is just plain illegal.

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