[5681] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
CRLF vs LF was: Re: holding connections open...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auerbach)
Sun Sep 18 12:58:27 1994
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 18:50:51 +0200
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From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
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> |>1. Use multipart/* and BASE64 encoding.
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> It would also make Tim B-L very very unhappi. The whole point of HTTP is
> to exploit being 8 bit clean. We do not want the smallest toehold for the
> people who would start running 7 bit only transports.
Am I imagining things are do we have some inconsistency about how
servers terminate their header lines? Out of the side of my eye last
week I think I perceived two major servers (NCSA and CERN) having
different opinions whether to terminate a header line with a simple LF
or a CRLF pair.
--karl--
