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Re: [ietf-822] Wherefore no HTAB in literal text strings in ABNF

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Mon, 15 August 2016 01:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-822] Wherefore no HTAB in literal text strings in ABNF
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On 8/14/2016 6:34 PM, Sean Leonard wrote:
> I have been working with RFC 5234 lately. What is the rationale (or what are the rationales) for including SP %d32 but excluding HTAB %d9 in char-val, aka the literal text string? I am sure that this decision was not an oversight.

I don't recall.  Sorry.  I could generate guesses, but that's all they'd be.

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