From: Ofer Inbar <cos@leftbank.com>
Message-Id: <199612112018.PAA11640@zax.leftbank.com>
Subject: Re: blank line as head/body separator
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:18:16 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <8713.850334682@dumbcat.codewright.com> from "Marco S Hyman" at Dec 11, 96 12:04:42 pm
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Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> writes:
> John C Klensin writes:
>  > In essence, Drums has to treat trailing white space in headers as noise,
> 
> Trailing white space?  I believe there was a reference in an earlier
> message to a site that generated received headers in the form
> 
> Received: from someplace
>         
> 	id something; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 06:00:34 -0500
> 
> with the second line consisting of HT CR LF.  Do you also want to treat
> this blank line as a head/body separator?

Unfortunately, yes.  Whatever decision we make, something will break,
and this sort of breakage is less destructive, and probably less
common, than the opposite (for the reasons I think it is less
destructive, see the message I began this thread with the other day).
Also, in fact, a lot of software today *does* treat that blank line as
the separator.

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